Private Harry Berry

Army Number: 24530

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Fred and Jane Berry, of 32, Ockerby Street, Bulwell, Nottingham. He was an iron foundry errand boy prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, 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 Berry is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.