Corporal Claude Victor Mills

Army Number : 265413 (formerly 2262)

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Wilford, Nottingham and lived at 48, Radnor Street, Nottingham. Son of Matthew and Emma Mills, of 33, Coalville Lane, Nottingham. Husband of Mabel Mills. He was a postman prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, 13th March 1917, during the follow-up attack during the German retreat at Gommecourt, France.

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