Private Samuel Jelly

Army Number: 230828 (should be 203828)

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and lived at Netherfield, Nottingham. Son of Henry and Lillian Jelly, of 17 Curzon Street, Netherfield. He was a Locomotive Engine Cleaner prior to enlisting on 26th April 1917 at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 28th September 1917 and was killed in action, 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Sorrell Wood/Longeuval, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Buried: Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 5. Row 1. Grave 15.