Private Albert Cordon

Army Number: 25832

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Cordon, of 27, Northwood Street, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted on 8th May 1915 at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He was posted to the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to France on 21st July 1916. He suffered gunshot wounds to his head on 3rd September 1916 and was admitted to 16 General Hospital, Le Treport, France, on 4th September 1916. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 4th October 1916 and was killed in action, on 10th October 1918, aged 26, in the attack on the German positions near Bohain, France.

Buried: Brancourt-Le-Grand Military Cemetery, France. Row A.Grave 22.

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.