Private Herbert Smoothy

Army Number: 10127

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

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Peter and Sarah Ann Smoothy. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 25, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.