Second Lieutenant Wilfred Ebery

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John and Elizabeth Ebery, of 12, Salisbury Street, Darlaston, Wednesbury, Staffordshire. Student At Jesus College, Oxford Commissioned Second Lieutenant Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 12th March 1915. Went to France November 1915 and was posted c Company 12th September 1915. Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 21, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, before the German attack of the front-line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

He is also commemorated Jesus College Oxford University War Memorial. And Darlaston, War Memorial, Wednesbury, Staffordshire