Private Samuel Godfrey

Army Number: 200296 (formerly 1989)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William and Elizabeth Godfrey, of Springfield Park, Sandiacre, Derbyshire. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 20, 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.