Private Harry Edward Appleton

Army Number: 10349

Battalion: 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Basford, Nottingham. Was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 21st May 1907 at Nottingham. He served in India from the 7th January 1908 to the 2nd of September 1914. He went to France on 4th November 1914. He suffered from frostbite on 22nd December 1914 and was invalided to England on Hospital Ship “St. David”, on the 23rd December 1914. He rejoined his battalion on 18th March 1915 in France and was killed in action, on 5th July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France during the Battle of the Somme.

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