Private Gideon Corbett

Army Number: 305765

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Blackwell, Derbyshire. Son of Noah and Helen Corbett, of 104, York Street, Mansfield-Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire; Husband of Lucy Leivers (formerly Corbett) of 39, Deeming Street, Meadows, Nottingham. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was killed in action, 27th April 1917, aged 27, during the attack at Hargicourt, France.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Private Gideon Corbett is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Yeoman Memorial Park War Memorial, Mansfield, Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Loggerheads Public House War Memorial, St Mary’s Church, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.