Captain George Henry Reginald MELLERS (1905)

1/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire And Derbyshire Regiment)
Born 10 September 1886
Killed in action 13 October 1915, aged 29
Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Also commemorated on the St Andrew’s Church and St Augustine’s Church war memorials (the latter now in St Leodegarius’ Church, Basford), Nottinghamshire.

George Mellers, who was known as Rex, was the only son of Joshua George Mellers and Sophia Elizabeth, née Robinson, of ‘Trafoi’, Pelham Rd, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham.

He was educated at Chigwell School, and took his BA at Merton in 1908.

Having joined the ‘Robin Hoods’ in 1907, he was mobilized in August 1914, and served in France and Belgium from February the following year, twice being wounded.

A few days after rejoining his company, he was killed in action in an attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, during the Battle of Loos, on 13 October 1915. His body was left entangled on the German barbed wire, and only recovered on the night of 22 November; it was buried in a shell hole, but subsequently lost.