Lance Corporal Sidney A. Smith

Army Number: 265938 formerly 3344

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Husband of Ellen Smith, of 1, Chapel Street, Derby. Went to France on 28th February 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 23, 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.

Thiepval Memorial, France.