Notts Free Press, 28th January 1916
MELLORS C.
Cyril Mellors D.C.M.
Serjeant 17192
7th Bn., Leicestershire Regiment
Notts Free Press, 28th January 1916
Cyril Mellors died on Tuesday 26 September 1916, aged 21 years, and is commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
He was born 24th February 1895 on Union Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. His parents were Arthur & Eliza Jane Mellors. Arthur Mellors was a Miner, who married Eliza Jane Woodhead at St Mary's Church, Sutton-in-Ashfield in June 1895.
 Notts Free Press, 28th January 1916 |
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Sergeant Mellors was
awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in January 1916, for conspicuous
gallantry.
The reverse of the medal states ~ "For distinguished conduct in the field" |
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 27th September 1918
In loving memory of Sergeant C. Mellors, 7th Leicesters, killed in Action September 26th 1916. "Thy will be done". - From his loving Mother, Father, Brother and Sister.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
The Leicestershire Regiment’
MELLORS
Cyril. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts,
enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Notts). 7th Bn., Leicestershire Regiment, Sergt.
17192, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 26th September 1916.
D.C.M.
Research by Heather Faulkes
