Captain Thomas Bernard Cutts

Army Number formerly Private 17473 Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. Lance Corporal 739 Lincolnshire Regiment.

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British War and Victory Medal

Son of John and Annie Sophia Cutts, of Brooklyn, Private Road, Sherwood Road, Nottingham. He was educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant to the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 11th March 1915. Promoted Captain to the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 1st October 1915. He went to France on 1st February 1916 and was killed in action during the attack near Trones Wood, Guillemont, France on 20th July 1916, aged 29, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Guillemont Road Cemetery, France. Plot 5, Row O, Grave 9

Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, France.
Captain Thomas Bernard Cutts grave

Captain Thomas Bernard Cutts is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. John The Evangelist War Memorial, Carrington, Nottinghamshire.
Uppingham School Chapel War Memorial, Rutland.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.