William Henry WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

http://www.jcwilton.com// (no longer exists)

Wilton W.H. Pte. 193rd. Coy. Machine Gun Corps Int. KIA 7 May
1917, age 30, ser.# 68623 buried in London Cemetry,
Neuville Vitasse, France. Fr.1185 Plot 2 Row H Grave 7/11
son of John & Susan Wilton of Blisland, Bodmin.
husband of Mabel Wilton, Knight`s Row, Lostwithial, Cornwall. born
Altarnun,enlisted Bodmin, residence Lostwithiel.

In Memory of

W H WILTON

Private
68623
193rd Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Inf)
who died on
Monday, 7th May 1917. Age 30.

Additional Information: Son of John and Susan Wilton, of Blisland,
Bodmin; husband of Mabel Wilton, of Knight's Row, Lostwithiel, Cornwall.


Commemorative Information

Cemetery: LONDON CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-VITASSE, Pas de Calais,
France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: II. H. 7/Il.
Location: Neuville-Vitasse is a village in the department
of the Pas-de-Calais, 5 kilometres south-east of Arras on
the D5. London Cemetery stands on the west side of the road to Arras in a
shallow valley.



Historical Information:


Neuville-Vitasse village was attacked by the 56th (London) Division on
the 7th April, 1917, and captured by the same Division on the 9th; almost
entirely lost at the end of March, 1918 ; and regained at the end of
August, 1918. It was later "adopted" by the Metropolitan Borough of
Paddington. The London Cemetery was made by the 56th Division in April,
1917, and greatly extended after the Armistice by the concentration of
graves from other burial grounds and from the battlefields between Arras,
Vis-en-Artois and Croisilles. There are now nearly 750, 1914-18 war
casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost half are
unidentified and on a screen wall are panels bearing the names of
soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in four cemeteries in the
neighbourhood, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery
covers an area of 2,027 square metres and is enclosed by a stone curb.
The burial grounds now represented in the cemetery were:- WANCOURT ROAD
CEMETERY NO.2, just East of Neuville-Vitasse. NEUVILLE-VITASSE MILL
CEMETERY, close to a German strong point on the road to Mercatel.
BEAURAINS ROAD CEMETERY NO.2, just North-West of Neuville-Vitasse.
BEAURAINS GERMAN CEMETERY and ERCHIN GERMAN CEMETERY (Nord).

William married Mabel. (Mabel was born circa 1890.)