Wilfred Williams Bleaken
Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton
Regiment: London Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 225319
Parents: Eliza Bleaken
Home address: Hawkesbury Common, Horton, Glos
Date of birth: 1894
Place of birth: Hawkesbury Upton, Glos
Date of death: 1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension (Ref 1. A. 12.), France
Further information:
Wilfred Williams Bleaken was born and raised on Hawkesbury Common
He served with the 1st Battalion, London Regiment and was posted to France in June 1917. He was wounded during the Third Battle of Ypres but recovered and returned to his battalion before the end of the year. On 21 March 1918, he was officially posted as ‘missing’ at the start of the German Spring offensive and died as a prisoner of war in June 1918
Wilfred Williams Bleaken is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry
Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register and Imperial War Museum Lives of the First World War and Forces War Records