Sergeant Ernest Albert Wragg

Army Number: 200653 (formerly 2695)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of James and Elizabeth Wragg, of 1, Regent Street, Long Eaton, Derbyshire. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 30, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.