Private Alfred Wheatley

Private Alfred Wheatley

Army Number: 9653

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Mrs Eliza Millership, of 31, Thorneywood Rise, Marmion Road, Carlton Road, Nottingham. A Reservist. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 31, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.