Private William Henry Clarson

Army Number: 10872

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

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire and lived at Doncaster, Yorkshire. Son of Henry and Mary Clarson, of Lawn Mill Road, Kimberley. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Giltbrook, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Buried: Sissonne British Cemetery, France. Row N. Grave 10.

Sissonne British Cemetery, France.

Private William Henry Clarson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Kimberley War Memorial, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire
Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.