Private Samuel Berry

Army Number: 305919 (formerly 3064)

Battalion: 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Samuel and Sarah Berry, of 18, Forest Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Newark, Nottinghamshire. He was killed in action, 26th August 1918, age 24, whilst serving in the line near Gorre, France. 

Buried : Fouquieres Churchyard Extension, France. Plot 4. Row E. Grave 6.

Private Samuel Berry is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary Magdalene Church War Memorial, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-In-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His bother Private George Berry, 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.