Private Henry Deacon

Army Number: 5023

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. He was a brewers labourer prior to enlisting 18th September 1915. He went France 3rd March 1916.Husband of Elizabeth Graham (formerly Deacon), of 13, Oldknow Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 33, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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

His also commemorarted on the St Stephens Church war memorial, Nottingham.