PTE O G Wakefield 1st Wilts
Oliver George Wakefield died 11th August 1945 aged 21 and is buried in the Karachi War Cemetery. He was in the 1st Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment.
Karachi War Cemetery was created to receive Second World War graves from civil and cantonment cemeteries scattered throughout northern Pakistan where their permanent maintenance could not be assured. The cemetery contains 642 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
At the start of the Second World War, the 1st Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment was stationed in India. It remained there, performing internal security duties at the outset of the war and later serving along the North-West frontier (which includes the Khyber Pass) before the offensive to recapture Burma from the Japanese.
Pte Wakefield died four days before the Japanese surrendered.
