Private Maurice Nutt

Army Number: 265250 (formerly 1940)

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

Born in Nottingham and lived at Charlton Street, Castle Boulevard, Nottingham. Son of James and Margaret Nutt, of 9 Charlton Street, Lenton. He was a rope maker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private Maurice Nutt is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Lenton, Nottingham.