Private Harry Beadsworth
Army Number: 265902 (formerly 3272)
Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at 4, King’s Arms Yard, Castle Street, Nottingham. Son of William and Esther Beadsworth. Husband of Ada Beadsworth. He was a threader prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th June 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, 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.
Private Harry Beadsworth is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Halifax Place Wesleyan Place War Memorial, (Nottingham Central Methodist Mission, Albert Hall) Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.