Private Percy Wildsmith

Army Number: 200132 (formerly 1578 Medal Index also refers to Wildsmith T.)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Mr and Mrs F. P. Wildsmith, of 106, Leonard Street, Derby. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 20, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.