Private Edwin Ernest Berry

Army Number: 266516 (formerly 4836)

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

Born and lived at Carrington, Nottingham. Son of Samuel Richard and Emma Berry, of 8, Wesley Street, Carrington, Nottingham. He was an apprentice plumber prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He 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 Edwin Ernest Berry is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.