The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Captain H I De Burgh Wilson

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Memorial Stone, Westfield Parish Church (St John the Baptist)

Captain Henry Ivan De Burgh WILSON, 2nd /4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, 19th April 1917, age 30.

Son of Surgeon Gen. Sir William Deane Wilson, K.C.M.G., and Lady Annie Wilhelmina Elizabeth Deane Wilson, of St. Helen's Down Lodge, St. Helens, Hastings, Sussex.

1st February 1888, Holy Trinity, Woolwich, baptism of Henry Ivan De Burgh Wilson, son of  William Deane & Annie Wilhelmina Elizabeth Wilson, Rosemount, Hill Street.

1911 Census - William Deane Wilson, head, age 66, married, Retired Army Med Officer ???? Major General,  born Rathdowney Queen, Ireland; Anna Wilhelmina Wlizabeth Wilson, wife. age 53, married 30 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Killenall, County Tipperary; William Henry Deane Wilson, son, age 29, single, Captain Indian Army, born Ipswich, Suffolk; Arthur Desmond Lloyd Wilson, son, age 26, single, fruit farmer, own account, born Woolwich, Kent; Henry Ivan de Burgh Wilson, son, age 22,  single, fruit farmer, own account, born Woolwich, Kent; Gerald Rickard Courtenay Wilson, son, age 22, single, medical student, born Woolwich, Kent; Selina Jewell, servant, 55, single, cook domestic, born Eastdown, Devon; Annie Pritchard, servant, age 33, single, housemaid domestic, born Thornton Heath, Surrey.

9th August 1915, posted Gallipoli Theatre of War.

12th June 1917, Probate - Henry Ivan de Burgh Wilson, of Moorside, Westfield, near Battle, Sussex, Captain 2/4th Royal West Kent Regiment, died 19th April 1917, in Palestine. Probate London, 12th June to Dame Annie Deane Wilson (wife of Sir William Deane Wilson, K.C.M.G.,) Effects £633 10s 7d.

Commemorated Wye, South Eastern Agricultural College, War Memorial.

Buried at  Gaza War Cemetery, XXX. D. 5., Israel.

London Gazette 21st January 1916

Royal West Kent Regiment. -  Lieutenant Henry I. de B. Wilson to be Adjutant, vice Captain Walter C. Lamarque. Dated 25th December, 1915.

London Gazette 27th March 1917.

Royal West Kent Regiment.—2nd Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant) H. I. de B. Wilson to be temporary Captain and to remain Adjutant. 1st October 1916.

London Gazette 4th May 1917.

War Office, 4th May, 1917. TERRITORIAL FORCE. INFANTRY.

Royal West Kent Regiment - 

2nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain) H. I. de B. Wilson (since killed in action) to be Lieutenant (temporary Captain), with precedence as from 1st June 1916, and to remain Adjutant.  -  5th May 1917.

Lieutenant (temporary Captain) H. I. de B. Wilson (since killed in action) relinquishes temporary rank of Captain, and to remain Adjutant. -  5th May 1917.