Corporal George Henry Clayton

Army Number: 269228 (formerly 20007)

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Collingham, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Hester Clayton, of Cottage Lane, South Collingham; Husband of Lizzie Maria Clayton, of Brickyard Cottages, Brough Road, South Collingham, Newark-On-Trent. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was killed in action, 27th May 1918, aged 18. whilst the battalion was in a retiring fight from Montagne de Guyancourt, France.

Commemorated: Soissons Memorial, France.

Second Lieutenant William Miles Smalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mapperley War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Central Methodist Mission (Albert Hall) War Memorial.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
High Pavement Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.