Private Henry Smedley

Army Number: 13485

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Daniel Smedley, of 7, Seymoor, Norbriggs, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 17th December 1914 and was killed in action, on 12th March 1915, aged 20, in the German counter-attack and then the British counter-attack during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

Le Touret Memorial, France.

Private Henry Smedley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Staveley War Memorial, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.