Private George Speed

Army Number : 107332 (formerly 14996 14th Training Battalion)

Battalion : 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born Radcliffe, Lancashire and lived at Rotherham,Yorkshire. Son of Henry John and Mary Speed, of 54, Norwood Street, Dalton Brook, Rotherham. He was a coal miner (pony driver) prior to enlisting 12th September 1916 at Rotherham. He was transferred to the 51st Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Training Battalion, 1st November 1917. He went to France 1st April 1918 and was posted to the 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 6th April 1918. He was killed in action, 13th April 1918, whilst holding the line south-east of the Wulverghem (Wulvergem) and Neuve Eglise (Nieuwerke) road, during the second German offensive of 1918, the Battle of the Lys.

Buried/Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.