Private Harold Lee

Private Harold Lee

Army Number : 23091

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Beeston, Nottingham. Son of Mrs. Emma Lee, of 28, Imperial Road, Beeston, Nottingham. He was a moulder prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was posted to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to Gallipoli in 1915. He then went to France and was posted to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, 8th August 1916, aged 25, in the attack on Delville Wood, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Private Harold Lee
Nottingham Daily Express 2nd April 1915

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.


Private Harold Lee is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Beeston, Nottingham.

His brother Private Albert Lee, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.