Lance Corporal Ernest Clay

Army Number : 29639

Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Alfreton. Derbyshire and lived at Mapperley, Nottingham. Husband of Elizabeth Clay of 30 Belvoir Street, Mapperley. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, during the attack near Beaumont Hamel, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, France. Row F. Grave 16.

Lance Corporal Clay is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Alfreton War Memorial, Alfreton, Derbyshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.