Lance Sergeant Josiah Blythe

Army Number: 305673 (formerly 2614)

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Skegby, Nottinghamshire and lived at Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Mary Elizabeth Blythe, of 15, Union Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. he went to France 29th June 1915 and was killed in action, 12th September 1917, aged 28, by German shellfire whilst in the line near Cambrin, France. 

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

Lance Sergeant Josiah Blythe is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Marty Magdalene Church War Memorial, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. 
Sutton-In-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.