Current Information:

Age-27

51, Melville Road, Harlesden

Doullens Communal Cemetery1, France

Between 25th-31st March, 1916, 7th King’s Royal Rifle Corps of 41 Brigade, 14th Division were holding the front line at Arras The Battalion diary records that the weather was fine and warm and that this tour in the trenches was a quiet one. It also adds that the 10 casualties suffered by the battalion during this period, were all as a result of sniper fire. William Hooker died of wounds on 29th March, 1916, and he may have been wounded in an earlier action.