Private Alfred Ernest Blagg
Army Number: 25555
Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Pyebridge, Derbyshire and lived at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Son of Edwin and Fanny Blagg, of 11 Bridge Road, Eastwood. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to France and was transferred to the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, 31st July 1917, in the attack at Steenbeek, Belgium.
Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.
Private Alfred Ernest Blagg is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Eastwood War Memorial, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.