Private Cyril Wroughton

Army Number: 266599 (formerly 4960)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Mrs Elizabeth Wroughton, of 27, Westgate Street, St. Anns Well Road, Nottingham.

Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 18, 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.