Private Wilfred Cocker

Army Number : 28487

Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of John and Gertrude Cocker, of 8, Lotus Street, St. Anns Well Road, Nottingham. Was a bookbinders errand boy prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, aged 18, in the attack at Beaumont Hamel, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, France. Row E. Grave 20.

is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-

Second Lieutenant William Miles Smalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mapperley War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Central Methodist Mission (Albert Hall) War Memorial.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
High Pavement Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.