Private Anthony Wilcox

Army Number: 201060 (formerly 3491)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of James and Irma Wilcox, of 34, Riddings Street, Derby. Went to France on 25th June 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 25, 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.