Private Horace Briggs

Army Number: 91507

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph and Emma Briggs, of 11 May Street, Ilkeston. He enlisted at Ilkeston and was killed in action, 19th September 1918, aged 19, in the attack at the Quadrilateral near Holnon village. 

Buried : Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, France. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 12.

Private Horace Briggs is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Christ Church War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.