Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was a nephew of Mr and Mrs John Pateman, and was brought up by them. Before enlisting in the Rifle Brigade he had been a carpenter by trade, and had completed nine years service at the time of his death. He gained the Third Class Certificate of Education in December 1906, and a Second Class in March 1907, he also gained a First at the School of Military Engineering in February 1910, and he was promoted to the rank of Pioneer Sergeant the same year. He was in France from August 1914, until November 1915, when he was invalided to England, proceeding to Netley Hospital. He was discharged in March 1916, and died at home in Empingham on the 2nd July 1916. Other sources show only one Christian name of William.