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John WILTON
(1823-After 1881)
Honour BREWER
(1822-After 1881)
William Brewer WILTON
(1848-After 1881)
Mary M
(1847-After 1881)
William George WILTON
(1876-1917)

 

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William George WILTON

  • Born: 1876, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
  • Died: 14 May 1917, Mericourt-L'abbe, The Somme, France aged 41
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bullet  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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

W.Wilton. Born St.Columb Minor; Enlisted Newquay; Resided St.Columb Minor.


In Memory of

W WILTON
Private
241093
lst/5th Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
who died on
Monday, 14th May 1917.


Commemorative Information

Cemetery: HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE,
Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: VI. F. 25.
Location:




Historical Information:




Mericourt-l'Abbe is a village approximately 19 kilometres north-east of
Amiens and 10 kilometres south-west of Albert. Heilly Station Cemetery is
about 2 kilometres south-west of Mencourt-l~Abbe, on the south side of
the road to Corbie. The 36th Casualty Clearing Station was at Heilly from
the 1st April, 1916, to April, 1917. It was joined in May by the 38th
Casualty Clearing Station, and in July by the 2/2nd London. The last
hospital left Heilly in June, 1917, but the 20th Casualty Clearing
Station was there in August and September, 1918. The
cemetery was begun in May, 1916, and was used by the three medical units
until April, 1917. From March to May, 1918, it was used by Australian
units, and in the early autumn for further hospital burials. The last
British grave was made in May, 1919. A small German Plot, near the
North-West corner, containing 13 graves of 1918-19, was removed after the
Armistice. There are now 3,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in
this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified and special
memorials are erected to fifteen soldiers from the United Kingdom, four
from New Zealand and two from Australia, whose graves could not be
exactly located. The regimental badges, numbering 117, are carved on a
cloister wall on the North side. The cemetery covers an area of 6,210
square metres and is enclosed on three sides by a red brick wall.


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