Private George Heap

Army Number: 21368

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Husband of Clara Lillian Rebecca Linthwaite Heap, of 87, Briar Street, Meadows, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was later transferred to the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 32, in the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot II. Row K. Grave 4.

Private George Heap is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. George’s Church War Memorial, Meadows, Nottingham.
St. Faith’s Church War Memorial, (St. Saviour’s Church) Meadows, Nottingham.