WILCOCKSON D.
Douglas Wilcockson
Rifleman S/9462
16th Bn., Rifle Brigade
Douglas Wilcockson died on Tuesday 31st July 1917, Age 22, and is commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1896 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents Joseph & Emma Wilcockson. Joseph Wilcockson was a Coal Miner, and in 1901 the family were living on Chatsworth Street, Sutton. At the time of Douglas's death they resided at 102, St. Michael's Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 2nd August 1918
Wilcockson - In Loving Memory of our dear Son and Brother, Rifleman Douglas Wilcockson, who was killed in Action, August 1st 1917. One year has gone and still we miss him, Friends may think the wound has healed; little do they know the sorrow, That's within our hearts concealed. - From Mother, Brothers and Sisters.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)’
Research by Heather Faulkes
