Private Wilfred Sheppard

Army Number: 266810 formerly 5349

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

Son of Mrs. Kate Patchett, of 298, Carlton Hill, Carlton, Nottingham. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 17, 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.