Private Claude Chettle

Army Number : 1137

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Leicester and lived at Kimberley, Nottingham. Son of James and Elizabeth Chettle, of 47, Nottingham Road, Kimberley, Nottingham. He was a Butcher prior to enlisting, 18th May 1909. He went to France 10th September 1915, sustained gunshot wounds to his shoulder and chest, 10th August 1915 and died of wounds, 12th August 1915, aged 24, at No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Remy Siding, Belgium.

Buried/Commemorated : Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 3. Row D. Grave 20A

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Private Claude Chettle grave

Private Claude Chettle is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Kimberley War Memorial, Main Street, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire.
Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.


His brother Private Harry Chettle, 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.