William Wiseman

Private - Service No. 25429 - 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment

William Wiseman, the son of Robert Wiseman and his wife Susanna (Clarke), was born on 19th October 1896 in Hethersett, Norfolk. He was the fifth of seven children, Alice (1889), Arthur (1891), Charles (1892), Robert (1894), Frederick (1902) and Violet (1907) although Alice was born Alice Barbara Clarke a few months before Robert and Susannah married and Robert died before reaching his second birthday. Robert and Susannah married on 4th December 1889 at Hethersett having both been born and raised there. Robert was a coal dealer but, by the time he was 50, had become a farm labourer.

In 1922 William Wiseman married Ethel May Victoria Hurry but William appears to have died in 1931 without the couple ever having children. Ethel was remarried, to William Gooch, in 1932 and died in 1957 near Lowestoft, Suffolk.

William joined the 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment with the rank of Private, about 1916. His army records do not survive but we know he was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

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