Private William Shield Whitfield

Service number 38939

Home: Station Cottage, Burnfoot, St Johns Chapel
Enlisted: 20 November 1915, Sunderland (aged 32)
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Battalion / unit: 5th Battalion (9th Battalion)
Conflict: First World War
War record: Yes
Next of kin: Husband of Mary Ann Whitfield of Burnfoot, St. Johns Chapel

Notes

Occupation on enlistment - Head Counter Man - Married Mary Ann Johnson 1906 - Posted to France from 10/1/1917 to 19/5/1917 - Gunshot Wound to Right Foot11/5/1917 - Posted to Reserves at West Hartlepool25/1/1918 - Suffered from shell shock & French Fever Died 12th June 1951 at Frosterley-

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