The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G Wilkin

Home     

Private George WILKIN, G/38685, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 27th September 1918.

Born Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, son of George & Rhoda Wilkin.

1911 Census - Langtoft Fen, Peterborough - George Wilkin, head, age 45, married, farm labourer, worker, born Witchford, Cambridgeshire; Rhoda Wilkin, wife, age 40, married 18 years, 9 children, all still alive, born Wentworth, Cambridgeshire; Rhoda Wilkin, daughter, age 17, single, born Wentworth, Cambridgeshire; Robert Wilkin, son, age 16, single, farm labourer, worker, born Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire; William Wilkin, son, age 14, farm labourer, worker, born Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire; George Wilkin, son, age 12, school, born Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire; Edith Emily, daughter, age 10, school, born Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire; Jack Wilkin, son, age 8, school, born Peterborough, Northamptonshire; Annie Wilkin, daughter, age 6, school, born Peterborough, Northamptonshire; Martin Wilkin, son, age 4, born Old Leahe, Lincolnshire; Catherine Wilkin, daughter, age 2, born Thornhaugh, Northamptonshire; Earnst Edward Wilkin, grandson, age 6 months, born Great Casterton, Rutland.

Enlisted Bedford, Bedfordshire.   Resided Leagrave, Bedfordshire.

Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 7, Pas de Calais, France and on Leagrave War Memorial.