Walter Wakefield
Coal Miner (C. 1911)
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Walter Wakefield was born in 1884 at Nottinham, he was the son of Arthur Wakefield and Clara Wakefield née Swallow.
His father Arthur was born in 1870 at Criggleston, Yorkshire, his mother Clara Swallow was born in 1869 at Crigglestone, Yorkshire, they were married in in 1888 at Crigglestone, Yorkshire, the went on to have 11 children sadly 3 were to die in infancy or early childhood.
In 1905 Walter Wakefield married Annie [Frances] Law at Nottingham Their children included: May Francis (b.1906) and Walter (b.1907).
In 1911 the Wakefields were living with Annie’s parents, Charles and Martha Law, at 16 Moseley Street, Basford.
In 1919 Annie Frances Wakefield married Stephen Thomas Wilsea at Nottingham.
The post-war address given for them in the CWGC records was 6 Bedford Square, Hyson Green. Annie Francis Wilsea died at Nottingham, aged 61, in 1945.
He enlisted at Hertford; he srved witht he 1st garraion battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, he died on 9th November 1918 at Salonika; he is buried in the Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece.
It has not proved possible to identify his parents. There is a Walter Wakefield whose birth was registered at Nottingham in 1884 but no one called Walter Wakefield of the right age and birthplace can be found in the 1891 or 1901 censuses. Just to add to the uncertainty about this particular individual the SDGW gives his birth place as Retford.
Photo of Walter Wakefield
Kirecakoi Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece.