Notts Free Press, 21st July 1916
STRAW C. C.
Cyril Carfield Straw
Serjeant 20058
10th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Notts Free Press, 21st July 1916
Cyril Carfield Straw died on Saturday 15 July 1916, Age 21, and was buried in MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT, Seine-Maritime, France.
He was born on 2nd July 1895 at Sutton Woodhouse, and was the son of Herbert and Elizabeth (Betsy) Straw. Herbert Straw was a Deputy in the Coal Mines and a native of Sutton-in-Ashfield. He married Elizabeth (formerly Hinds) at St Mary, Sutton-in-Ashfield in April 1881. Elizabeth Hinds was born in Derby.
Notts Free Press, 21st July 1916
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
STRAW Cyril Carfield, born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts., Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), 10th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Sergeant 20058, died of wounds, France & Flanders, 15th July 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
