Leonard Moore WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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

In Memory of

LEONARD MOORE WILTON

Private
7943
1st Bn., Somerset Light Infantry
who died on
Wednesday, 26th August 1914. Age 28.

Additional Information: Served as COUSINS. Son of the late Simon and
Annie Wilton.


Commemorative Information

Memorial: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, Seine-et-Marne, France

Location:

La Ferte-sous-Jouarre is a small town 66 kilometres to the east of Paris,
and the Memorial is situated in a small park on the south bank of the
River Marne, just off the main road to Paris. The Memorial Register is
kept at the Town Hall. The La Ferte-sous-buarre Memorial commemorates
nearly 4,000 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force who died
in August, September and the early part of
October 1914 and who have no known grave. The monument consists of a
rectangular block of stone, 62 feet by 30 feet and 24 feet high,
with the names of the dead engraved on stone panels on all sides of the
monument. The monument is surmounted by a sarcophagus and a trophy carved
in stone. At the four corners of the pavement are stone piers with urns,
carved with the coats of arms of the Empire.