Private Joseph Oakland

Private Joseph Oakland
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Army Number: 42234

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

Born and lived at Carlton, Nottingham. Son of John and Caroline Oakland, of 6, Birch Avenue, Carlton, Nottingham. He was litho printer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He died of wounds, 12th November 1917.

Buried: Solferino Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 28.

Solferino Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

Private Joseph Oakland is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Carlton, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham. 

His brother Private Herbert Oakland, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.