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Geoffrey Ernest Clayton  G Clayton        Sherwood Foresters - Notts & Derby cap badge

Surname Clayton  
Forename/s Geoffrey Ernest  
Rank Lance Corporal  
Service Number 4987618  
DOB 1923 in Tupton  
Address    
Date & place of death/details 10/10/1944 age 21
Central Mediterranean Area		  
Regiment & Unit 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment)  
Service details North Africa & Italy.  
Military Awards?    
Married?               Children?    
Any photographs? Yes - Derbyshire Times  
Derbyshire Times Obituary: 3/11/1944 G Clayton - Obituary, Derbyshire Times.  
Parents names Mr Frederick Ernest & Mrs Millicent May Clayton  
Parents address 22, Green Lane, New Tupton
Grave location or   memoria location Buried at Faenza War Memorial. North East Italy, V.B.8. Approximately 30 miles from Bologna.  
Living relatives Not known.  
Any other information? Joined the army in June 1942.
served in North Africa in 1943.
Before the war Geoffrey worked with the LMS railway company at Chesterfield and also at Mr. Alf Butlers terrier kennels at Wingerworth.
Geoffrey enlisted in June 1942 at the age of 19, joining the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment). The 2nd Battalion would be part of the 1st Infantry Division throughout the war. Geoffrey is recorded as serving in North Africa in 1943. This would be when the 2nd Battalion took part in the final stages of the Tunisian campaign which resulted in the surrender of the German Africa Corps.
In1944 the 2nd Battalion became part of the United States 5th Army which undertook the Anzio landings on the 22nd January. They would then continue to fight in Italy for the remainder of the war.
Geoffrey died on the 10th October 1944. By this time the Germans had been pushed back to the ‘Gothic Line’ which was a defensive line running across northern Italy. Fighting took place from August to December 1944 to break these defences. It would be during this fighting that Geoffrey was killed.