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Possibly the below


NAME: Wakefield, William

RANK: Private

UNIT: Gloucestershire Regiment (In Portsmouth & Great War regiment given as this)

BATTALION ETC: 1st Battalion

REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 7267

HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 7th November 1914

WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

OTHER INFORMATION: Born: Dunfield, Glos. Enlisted: Cirencester. Married Beatrice Pellow April/May/June 1914 Portsmouth (Ref marriage register & soldiers effects for NOK)

Only other possible below:


NAME: Wakefield, William

RANK: Corporal

UNIT: Gloucestershire Regiment (In Portsmouth & Great War regiment given as this)

BATTALION ETC: 1st Battalion

REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 9543

HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 1st November 1918

WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Mazinghien Communal Cemetery, Nord, France

OTHER INFORMATION: Enlisted: London. Son of Mrs. L. Wakefield of 93 Cromer St., King's Cross, London.