John Symons WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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

In Memory of

JOHN WILTON

Gunner
137929
327th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery
who died on
Sunday, 2nd June 1918. Age 26.
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Georgina Wilton, of St. Cleer, nr.
Liskeard, Cornwall.


Commemorative Information

Cemetery: WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme,
France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: VI. G. 13.
Location:



Historical Information:


Warloy-Baillon is a village about 21 kilometres north-east of Amiens
along the D919 to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the east side of the
village and the extension is on the eastern side of the cemetery. The
first British burial took place in the Communal Cemetery in
October, 1915, and the last on 1st July, 1916. By that date Field
Ambulances had come to the village in readiness for the attack on the
German front line, 8 kilometres away, and the Extension was begun. The
fighting from July to November, 1916, on the northern part of the Somme
front accounts for the majority of the burials; but a certain number are
due to the German attack in the spring of 1918, which
reached the former British front line. There are now over 1,000, 1914-18
and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.

Baptism on St Cleer OPC web site
WILTON John Symons 1891 19-Nov M Charles Henry & Georgena WILTON of St. Cleer Village miner 5975-5PR p.176-1404