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Herbert William Slack
Private 28261
"C" Coy. 17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Herbert William Slack died on Wednesday 27 September 1916, Age 21, and was buried in EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS, Somme, France.
He was born on 24th June 1895 at Eastfield Side, Sutton-in-Ashfield. His parents were Samuel & Elizabeth Slack. Samuel Slack was a Framework Knitter, who died sometime before 1916. At the time of his death his mother had remarried as Elizabeth Dove, who was living at 52 York Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 27th September 1918
Slack - In Ever-Loving memory of Lance-Corporal Herbert William Slack, who was killed in Action, September 27th 1916. "May his reward be greater than his sacrifice" - From his ever-loving Mother.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood
Foresters’
SLACK, Herbert. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Notts. Enlisted at Nottingham (resides Bulwell, Notts) 17th Bn Sherwood
Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). L/Cpl 28261, killed in action, France &
Flanders 27th Sep 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes