Lance Corporal Herbert Neail

Army Number : 13737

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

Awards M.M. (Military Medal)

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Edwin Adam and Mary Neail, of 9, Petersham Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France August 1915 and was reported as being wounded in the Nottingham Evening Post 11th September 1917. Was awarded the M.M. (Military Medal), London Gazette Date 14th January 1918 and was killed in action, 25th March 1918, whilst in the line at Herbecourt, France.

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

Lance Corporal Herbert Neail is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Lenton War Memorial, Nottingham.