Lance Corporal Ernest Clay

Army Number: 2684

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born at Blidworth, Nottinghamshire. Son of Thomas Henry and Harriet Clay, of 41, Edward Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner at Kirkby Folly Colliery, Nottinghamshire, prior to enlisting at Newark Nottinghamshire on 17th October 1914. He went to France on 2nd March 1915, was appointed Lance Corporal on 1st September 1915 and was killed in action at Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, 14th October 1915, aged 19.

Commemorated: Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Lance Corporal Ernest Clay is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Blidworth War Memorial, Blidworth, Nottinghamshire.
Kingsway Cenotaph War Memorial Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.