Sergeant Percy Smith

Sergeant Percy Smith

Army Number: 9862

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action 20th September 1914 when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

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Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times
October 30th 1914.

Buried: Sissonne British Cemetery, France. Row O. Grave 10.

Sissonne British Cemetery, France.