Private Harold William Raley
Army Number: 3836
Battalion: 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Albert W. and Mrs Raley, of 37 Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham on 1st March 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 18, during the attack on Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot I. Row L. Grave 29.


Private Raley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
West Bridgford Methodist Church War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
West Bridgford War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
