William George WILTON
- Born: 1876, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
- Died: 14 May 1917, Mericourt-L'abbe, The Somme, France aged 41
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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