Private Harold Betts

Army Number: 27868

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and lived at 34 Newcastle Street, Mansfield.  Son of George and Ellen Betts, of 7 Vale Court, Manfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Mrs M. Betts, of 74, Cope Street, Mansfield Woodhouse. He was a coal miner at Langwith Colliery, Langwith, Nottinghamshire prior to enlisting October 1914 at Mansfield. Killed in action, 28th June 1916, whilst serving in the line near Festubert, France. 

Buried : Gorre British and Indian Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row H. Grave 10.

Private Harold Betts is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Yeoman Memorial Park, War Memorial, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.