Wakefield, John Thomas
20146 Private, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment)
269363 Private, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment)
Born 1883 at Messingham
Son of Thomas (a farmer from Messingham) and Lucy Ann (nee Johnson, of March, Cambridgeshire)
Family moved to Winterton then, after his father died in 1892, back to Messingham
May have served before the Great War and then re-enlisted into his old regiment
Wounded in 1917
Married Amy Woodhouse (sister of George; below) in 1927
Died 1st November 1929 aged 46 at Selby
Buried alongside his wife in Scotter Cemetery
Gravestone says of him 'safe home in port'
His brother Frederick died and is remembered on Messingham War Memorial