Private Harold Bexon

Army Number: 265896 (formerly 3423)

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Benjamin and Jane Bexon, of 36, Vernon Avenue, Old Basford, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham. Went to France on 25th June 1915 and was killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 23, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Arras Memorial, France.

Private Harold Bexon is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Aidan’s Church Roll of Honour, Old Basford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.