Corporal Harry Morrice Betts

Army Number: 755

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

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of  John Thomas and Julia  Betts, of 70, Burford Road, Nottingham. He was lace curtain draughtsman prior to enlisting 1st March 1909 at Nottingham. He was appointed Lance Corporal 6th November 1914 and went to France 28th February 1915 and was promoted Corporal 18th August 1915. He was killed in action, 13th October 1915, aged 28, in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France. 

Commemorated : Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Corporal Harry Morrice Betts is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Stephen’s Church War Memorial, Hyson Green, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.