Private Clarence Henry Armstrong

Army Number: 4583

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Walter Henry Armstrong, of 59, Church Drive, Carrington, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham, went to France on 27th October 1915 and was killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 17, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 1. Row B, Grave 18.

Private Clarence Henry Armstrong is also commemorated on the following local memorials:
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.