Charles Wilcox
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In 1911, Charles Wilcox was living in Laneham with Mr and Mrs White as a boarder employed as a farm labourer. He had been bought up and born in Laneham in 1893, the son of a general farm labourer, George Wilcox (aka Wilcock) and his wife Emma (nee Chamberlain). Charles had five siblings, Annie born 1888, George 1890, Maria 1895, Henry 1897 and Nellie born in 1900.
Charles enlisted at Sheffield as Private Wilcox regimental number 9998, in the East Yorkshire Regiment. As he went to France on the 8th September 1914, he probably had been a territorial trained soldier. At some stage in his career he transferred to the 193rd Company Machine Gun Infantry Corps. He was wounded whilst fighting in Belgium and buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. His brother, Henry was also known to enlist in the Sherwood Foresters on 10th September 1914 but was discharged a few weeks later on the 30th November. His discharge was recorded as “not likely to become an efficient soldier”, which appears to be due to a hernia. Pte C Wilcox Retford Times 7 Sept 1917 We regret to report that another of Laneham’s sons, Pte C Wilcox, Machine Gun Corps, formed on of the “contemptible little Army” that arrived in France on September 7th 1914 at that time being attached to the East Yorks. He went through all the hard fighting in the Ypres district in 1914 and was wounded in the head at Hooge the following year. Subsequently he was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and served with that unit until his death.
CWG additional information:- Son of George and Emma Wilcox, of Laneham, Retford, Notts. Research by Colin Dannatt
