Sergeant William Wilkinson

Army Number: 200005 (formerly Lance Corporal 132)

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

Husband of Emily Wilkinson, of St. Johns Road, Belper, Derbyshire. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 36, 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.