Private Thomas Clay

Army Number: 201993 (formerly 2162)

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Allan and Ann Elizabeth Clay, of 33 Springfield Gardens, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He was a hosiery hand prior to enlisting on 9th December 1915 at Ilkeston. He went to France on 26th February 1917 and was killed in action, 26th September 1917, in the attack on Otto France near Gravenstafel, Belgium.

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private Thomas Clay is also commemorated on the following local memorial
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.