Private Joseph Illsley

Army Number: 19232

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Joseph And Alice Illsley; Husband of Florence Gertrude Illsley, of 4, Bradford St., Bulwell, Nottingham. Went to France on 11th October 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 27, in the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot IV. Row H, Grave 7.

Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France.