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Pte. Albert Edward Wakelin
British Army 9th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Chesterfield
Grandad Bert Wakelin was called up on the 20th of January 1916 and was posted to Rugeley camp. He arrived in France in June and was at Ovillers Boiselle on the 1st of July 1916. He was wounded at Messines on 7 June 1917 was was sent back to England to the Red Cross hospital at Saffron Walden. By the time he was sent back to France the 9th had left for Italy and he was placed with the 2/4th Battalion Y & L. He spent some time in Germany at Cologne and was discharged in 1919/20. After the war he returned to work with the Midland Railway Company in Sheffield as a clerk where he stayed until retirement.

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