Service no. C/3522
Corporal, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 4th Battalion
Killed in action on 23 March 1916, aged 18
Born in Clapham, Surrey; lived in Clapham; enlisted in Lambeth
CWGC: "Son of Mr. H. W. Wadsworth, of 53, Rectory Grove, Clapham, London."
Remembered at Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911, Vernon Cyril Wadsworth was a 13-year-old schoolboy, living with his parents and three brothers at 23 Rozel Road, Clapham, where the family had 7 rooms. His parents, Henry William Wadsworth, 42, a master tailor, and Fanny Wadsworth, 44, were both born in Clerkenwell. Their children, all born in Clapham, were
Henry William Wadsworth, 18, a company clerk
Leslie Lincoln, 14, an office boy
Vernon Cyril, 13, at school
Eric Victor, 9, at school