Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John Scholes, a building clerk of works, born in the January quarter of 1859 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire and baptised on the 6th March 1859 in the Parish Church, Kidderminster (son of John Scholes and Mary Carpenter Jones) and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Scholes (nee Cooksey, married in the April quarter of 1882 in the Kidderminster, Worcestershire district), born 1858 in Kidderminster. Wilfred Paul was born in the October quarter of 1894 in Leicester and was baptised on the 23rd December 1894 in St. Barnabas’s Church, Leicester, his siblings were, John Neville Carpenter, a post office clerk, born on the 28th June 1883 and Florence Clara, born in the October quarter of 1885, the latter two siblings were both born in Kidderminster, Francis Trevor, born on the 28th June 1893 in Coventry, Warwickshire and baptised on the 20th August 1893 in St. Michael’s Church, Coventry, in March 1901 the family home was at 34, Beaumont Road, Leicester. In April 1911 Wilfred was a schoolboy and was residing in the family home at 117, Mere Road, Leicester, together with his father a Leicester Corporation chief building inspector, his mother and siblings, John, a post office clerk, Florence, a music teacher and Francis, a clerk.
Wilfred’s Army enlistment documents were not researched, and as such all that is known of his military service is that he was commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment, and was posted as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 4th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment, embarking to join this unit he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 12th July 1915. Nothing further is known of his service until he was reported to have been killed in action on the 13th October 1915 during the attack upon the Hohenzollern Redoubt. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Loos Memorial in France. Wilfred was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

The War Diary records: 12 Oct-15 - At 9.00 am Battalion marched to SAILLY LABOURSE. Dinners and teas were cooked here. Rations for 134 men issued. At 5.15 pm Battalion marched to VERMELLES where stores were taken up. At 11.00 pm Battalion arrived in trenches.
The War Diary records: 13 Oct-15 - At noon our artillery started to bombard. At 1.00 pm our smoke and gas started. At 1.50 pm smoke and gas stopped. At 2.00 pm artillery lifted and Battalion assaulted the HOHENZOLLERN REDOUBT. Lieutenant Colonel R. E. MARTIN was wounded early but remained in the fire trench directing operations for nearly 24 hours and until -?- to the dressing station by Brigadier General KEMP. All officers of the Battalion either killed or wounded.
The War Diary records: 14 Oct-15 - In the evening the Battalion was relieved by part of the 139th Brigade and went back to the LANCASHIRE TRENCH. Roll call revealed that 188 NCO’s and men returned.
The Official History of the War – Military Operations (France and Belgium 1915 Volume II) provided the following statistics for the 1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, officers killed 20, other ranks killed 453. Total losses for the day were 138th Brigade 64 officers and 1,476 other ranks. 137th Brigade 68 officers and 1,478 other ranks.
On Thursday, October 21st, 1915 The Leicester Daily Post published the following article under the heading. “LEICESTERS ROLL OF HONOUR.” – LIEUT. SCHOLES. – (A photograph accompanied the article). Second-Lieut. Wilfrid Paul Scholes, an old Wyggestonian, who only joined the 1st/4th’s at the front last July. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge when war broke out, but abandoned his studies to join the 2nd/4th’s, obtaining his commission soon after enlistment.
On Friday October 29th 1915 The Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette published the following article under the heading. “LOCAL WAR ITEMS.” – LEICESTERSHIRE CRICKETER KILLED. Second-Lieut. Wilfred P. Scholes, 4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, who has been killed in action, was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Scholes, Park View, Mere Road, Leicester. He was educated at the Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, and was for two years captain of the cricket eleven. He gained an exhibition to King’s College, Cambridge, and joined the Leicester Regiment in September 1914.
On the 31st January 1920 the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester published a Roll of Honour in which Wilfred is shown to have been a pupil at the school between the years 1906 and 1913.