There is confusion here,
but he is not actually named on the Roll of Honour
| The East Anglian Record of December 1918 mentions "Joe" Wakerley, remembered as a member of the First Football XI and as being in the West Yorkshire Regiment. The Christmas 1913 issue has a J.Wakerley in Form III. No such death in the war has been found, or prisoner of war records. The only J. J. Wakerley found, in the West Yorkshire Regiment, was Joseph John, Private 53521, from Melton Mowbray, born 1899, but he was demobbed on 18th March 1919 and did not die until 1974 in Northampton. That last fact rules him out, unless the reference in the Record was not related to a war death (which would explain his absence from the Roll of Honour) |