Lieutenant Robert Dudley North

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Battalion : 14th attached 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He lived at Leigh Bank, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Harriette Dobson North, of 24, Watson Avenue, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a bank clerk at Lloyds Bank in Nottingham prior to enlisting. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 14th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, 22nd December 1914 and was promoted Lieutenant and joined the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at St. Jean, Belgium, 22nd February 1916. He was killed in action, 3rd May 1916, aged 31, by German shellfire in X10 trench, Canal Bank, near Poperinghe, Belgium.

Buried/Commemorated : La Brique Military Cemetery No.2, Belgium. Plot 1. Row V. Grave 15.

Lieutenant Robert Dudley North is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Mary Magdalene Church War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalene Church private stained glass window and plaque, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Queen Elizabeth Boys Grammar School War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.