Private Albert Henry Comery

Army Number: 10294

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

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived in Basford, Nottingham. Son of George and Emma Comery, of 68, Maud Street, New Basford, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham in 1907 and served in India. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and was killed in action, on 11th March 1915, aged 26, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

Private Albert Henry Comery is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Augustine’s Church War Memorial (St. Leodegarius Church), Basford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private William Comery 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps also fell in the Great War.