Corporal Henry Thomas Smedley Lacey

Army Number: 4075

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

Born in Mamballa, India. Son of Henry and Annie Lacey, of 177, Dame Agnes Street, Nottingham. He was a Fitter before enlisting on 10th December 1909 at Nottingham into the 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was promoted to Corporal on 27th March 1915 and then posted to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to Gallipoli on 18th September 1915. He went to France on 28th June 1916 and was posted to the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 7th September 1916. He was posted to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 8th February 1918 and was killed in action, on 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Sorrell Wood/Longeuval, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.