Private George Armson

Army Number: 21052

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

He was born and lived at Daybrook, Nottinghamshire. Son of Robert and Eliza Armson, of 26, Morris Street, Daybrook,. Husband of Harriet Armson. Was a coal miner. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 29th June 1915. Killed in action, 20th February 1916, whilst serving in the trenches at St. Jean, near Ypres, Belgium.

Buried White House Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1, Row E, Grave 7.

Private George Armson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Arnot Hill Park War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Daybrook, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Robert Armson, 44th Battalion Canadian Infantry, also fell in the Great War.