Private Robert James Drakefield

Army Number: 21699

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

Born and lived at Retford, Notts. Son of George and Elizabeth Ann Drakefield, of 21, Station Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire.He enlisted at Retford and went to France 23rd December 1915 and was Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 18, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to 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 on the Retford War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.