Private Herbert Dudley

Army Number: 41937

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham Son of Enoch and Mary Dudley, of 44 Gregory <street, Nottingham ,, husband of Hannah Dudley, of 11 Churchill Street, old Lenton, Nottingham He was a skinne’rs Laborer prior to enlisting 8th December 1915 at nottingham He went to France 9th July 1916 and was posted to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 22nd July 1916 He was admitted to 6 Stationary Hospital, frevent 25th April 1917 suffering from infectious dermatitis He was transferred to England 27rth April 1917. He returned to France 4th December 1917 and was posted 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.11th December 1917 He was Killed in action, 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

He is also commemorated on the Lenton war Memorial, Nottingham.