Private George Islip Coy

Army Number: 2664

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at East Stoke, near Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of Thomas Islip and Annie and Coy, of Bulcote, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 12th October 1914 at Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He went to France 25th June 1915 and was killed in action, 30th July 1915, aged 19, during the German attack on the British positions at Hooge, Belgium

Private George Islip Coy article — Nottingham Daily Express 25th August 1915

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private George Islip Coy is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Burton Joyce War Memorial, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.
St. Helen’s Church War Memorial, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.
Main Street Methodist Church War Memorial, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.