Private Harry Breedon

Army Number: 265886 (formerly 3241)

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

Born at Wollaton, Nottingham. and lived at Radford, Nottingham. Son of Alfred and Mary Breedon, of 335, Denman Street, Radford, Nottingham. He was a grocer’s assistant prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 18th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 20, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Harry Breedon is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter’s Sunday School War Memorial, St. Peter’s Church Radford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.