The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lieutenant A D L Wilson

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

Lieutenant Arthur Desmond Lloyd WILSON,  9th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 1st Royal Iniskilling), killed in action, 1st July  1916.

Born Woolwich, son of Sir William Deane Wilson K.C.M.G. & Annie Wilhelmina Elizabeth Wilson.

31st August 1885, Holy Trinity, Woolwich, baptism of Arthur Desmond Lloyd Wilson, son of Sir William Deane Wilson, (Surgeon Major, Medical Staff, Royal Arsenal), & Annie Wilhelmina Elizabeth Wilson, Rosemount, Hill Street.

1911 Census - Blacklands, East Malling, Kent - 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, 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.

1st November 1916, Probate - Arthur Desmond Lloyd Wilson, of Moorfield, Westside, near Battle, Sussex, Lieutenant 9th Royal West Kent Regiment died 1st July 1916 in France. Administration London 1st November to Sir William Deane Wilson K.C.M.G.  Effects £557 12s 3d.

Buried  at Y Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel , D. 42. Somme, France  Commemorated at Larkfield War Memorial Kent and at East Malling Green, Kent.      

London Gazette 21st November 1916.

The under mentioned temporary Lieutenants, from Reserve Battalions, to be temporary Lieutenants (attached).  - 1st September 1916, retaining their Army seniority:  A D L Wilson.