Edward WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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

In Memory of

EDWARD WILTON

Private
1721A
27th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died on
Sunday, 5th November 1916. Age 41.

Son of James Paynter Wilton and Elizabeth Wilton. Born at Thebarton,
South Australia.


VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL, Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the
straight main road to St Quentin. The Memorial stands in
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, which is about 2 kilometres north
of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy. Commemorated by
name on the Memorial are over 10,000 Australian soldiers who fell in the
battlefields of the Somme, Arras and the "Hundred Days" and who have no
known grave. The Villers-Bretonneux Memorial is also the Australian
National Memorial to the
Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First
World War, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead
whose graves are unknown. The Australian National Memorial was erected to
commemorate Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium, to
their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not
known. These soldiers fell in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras and
the "Hundred Days". There are now over 10,000, 1914-18 war casualties
commemorated on this memorial.