Edwin Stuart WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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

In Memory of EDWIN STUART WILTON

Driver
866218
Royal Field Artillery
who died on
Saturday, 2nd November 1918. Age 24.

Son of John and Mary Grace Wilton, of Phinnicks Hills, Bolventor,
Launceston, Cornwall; husband of Beatrice Bessie Wilton, of
Phillimore, Pensilva, Liskeard, Cornwall.

Cemetery: STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE, Seine-Maritime,
France
Grave Reference Div. 62.11. F. 2.


Ste. Marie Cemetery is one of the town cemeteries, but it is actually
situated in the commune of Graville-St. Honorine. It stands on the ridge
overlooking Le Havre from the north and is north of the N.182. During the
1914-18 war Le Havre was one of the ports at which the British
Expeditionary Force disembarked in August 1914, and, except for a short
interval during the German advance in 1914, it remained No.1 Base
throughout the war. By the end of May, 1917, it contained 3 general and 2
stationary hospitals, and 4 convalescent depots. During the latter part
of the 1939-45 war Le Havre was used as a supply and reinforcement base.
There are now over 1,500, 1914-18 and 350, 1939-45 war casualties
commemorated in this cemetery. In addition, special memorial records the
names of 144 who lost their lives when the hospital ships 'Galeka and
'Salta' and the transport ship 'Normandy' were sunk in the Channel by the
enemy, between 1916-18 and whose bodies were not recovered.

Edwin married Beatrice Bessie CUDMORE.