Private Victor Albert Wakeling

Army Number: 4772

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of W. H. and Louisa Wakeling, of 23, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London.

Went to France 20th July 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 19, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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