Alexander William WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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

In Memorv of

ALEXANDER WILLIAM WILTON

Private
B/72748
48th Highlanders of Canada, R.C.I.C.
who died on
Fridav, 25th April 1941. Age 26.

Son of William Harold Wilton and of Helen MacLeod Wilton (nee Bolton), of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada; husband of Dorothy Wilton, of Toronto.


Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom
Grave Reference 30. E. 6.


Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main
entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village
of Pirbright. Brookwood Cemetery, is a very extensive burial ground near
Woking, in the North-West corner of Surrey. Brookwood and Woking were
afforested by Henry II, but disafforested about 1225. The name
"Brookwood" has reference to the large woods of oak which grew in this
district in former times from which, according to local tradition, timber
was used in the construction of many sailing ships. Brookwood Military
Cemetery is owned by the Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war
cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres. In 1917,
an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (The London Necropolis) was set
aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth
and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London
district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth
casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch,
French and Polish plots containing the graves of casualties of our
Allies. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war
lie buried. The Commission also maintains as an agency service on behalf
of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, a plot of the graves of Chelsea
Pensioners, which is situated adjacent to the Military Cemetery. The
Commission now publish registers for Foreign Nationals and Non World War
Dead within their care in this cemetery. At the southern end of the
Canadian section stands the Brookwood Memorial, commemorating 3,500 men
and women of the Land Forces of the Commonwealth who died in many lands,
or at sea, and have no known grave. The circumstances of their death were
such that they could not appropriately be commemorated on any of the
campaign memorials in theatres of war. This is subject to separate
registers.

Alexander married Dorothy.