The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Wilson

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Private Alfred WILSON, G/18228, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 23rd July  1917, age 28.

Born Yorkshire, son of Arthur William & Charlotte Ann Wilson, of Low Ackworth, Pontefract, Yorkshire.

Enlisted Wakefield, Yorkshire, age 26 years & 11 months, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 109lbs, mole over right shoulder blade.  Resided 10 Penderfields Road, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Formerly ironmonger.

Separation Allowance 3/10 a week, Allotment of Pay 3/6 a week.

Home 1st December 1915 to 28th August 1916; BEF 28th August 1916 to 23rd July 1917.

1st December 1915, enlisted; 2nd December 1915, to Army Reserve; 15th February 1916, mobilized & posted 29th Royal Fusiliers, Service No. PS/10455; 29th August 1918, posted BEF & 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 28th August 1918, embarked; 29th August 1918, disembarked; 10th September 1918, 39 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, transferred from 11 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, to 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

24th September 1917, Probate - Alfred Wilson, of Ackworth, Pontefract, Yorkshire a Private in the Royal West Kent Regiment, died 23rd July 1917, in France. Probate Wakefield 24th September to Arthur William Wilson, builder. Effects £154 4s1d.

29th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Arthur William Wilson, Low Ackworth, near Pontefract; Mother, Charlotte Ann Wilson, Low Ackworth, near Pontefract; Brothers - Ernest Rees Wilson, age 26, Lieutenant 26th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Dunkirk France; Sisters - Edith Gladys Swinbank, age 28, West-Wood View, Moor Leys?, Ackworth, near Pontefract.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. / Ackworth War Memorial.