The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal F Wilson

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Lance Corporal Frank WILSON, G/10015, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action,  Flanders France, 7th October 1916.

Born Rochdale, Lancashire, son of Frederick Jonathan & Mary Ann Wilson.

1911 Census - 4 Deeplish Street, Rochdale - Frederick Jonathan Wilson, head, age 42, married, jewellers assistant, worker, born Rochdale, Lancashire; Mary Ann Wilson, wife, age 41, married 20 years, 2children, both still alive, born Rochdale, Lancashire; Frank Wilson, son, age 19, single, grocers assistant, worker, born Rochdale, Lancashire; Hugh Wilson, son, age 10, school, born Rochdale, Lancashire.

Enlisted Rochdale, Lancashire, age 22 years & 10 months, height 5ft 4 inches, weight 121lbs. Resided 32 Norreys Street, Rochdale, Lancashire. Formerly grocer.

Home 31st December 1914 to 2nd May 1916; BEF 3rd May 1916 to 7th October 1916.

31st December 1914, enlisted; 1st January 1915, posted 11th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment;

8th February 1916, South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire, Frank Wilson, age 23, bachelor, Soldier, Wittey Camp, Surrey, father, Frederick Jonathan Wilson, shop assistant, married Gertrude  Norcliffe, age 24, spinster, 9 Trafalgar Road, South Shore, father, Major Edward Norcliffe, deceased, stone mason. 

2nd May 1916, Southampton embarked; 3rd May 1916, Havre, disembarked.

30th April 1917, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow, Mrs Gertrude Wilson, 124 Duke Street, Rochdale, Lancashire.

16th August 1922, Mrs G Mills,(widow),  515 Market Street, Whitworth, near Rochdale, Lancashire.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.