The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H M Wilkins

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 Private Harry Mursell WILKINS, 210786, 5th Provisional Company, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, New End, Military Hospital, Hampstead, 12th February 1920, age 59.

12th September 1854?, born Hammersmith, son of Henry Sidney & Emma Wilkins.

31st October 1861, St Marylebone, Westminster, baptism,  son of Henry Sidney, (cabinet maker) & Emma Wilkins, Paradise Street.

Husband of Edith Wilkins, of 34, Pagoda Avenue, Richmond, Surrey. 

1911 Census - 40 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey - Harry Wilkins, head, age 50, married, Assistant Secretary, Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, born Hammersmith,  Middlesex;  Edith Wilkins, wife, age 38, married 16 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Tunbridge Wells; Harry Sidney Mursell Wilkins, son, age 8, born Fulham, Middlesex; Gwendoline Irene Wilkins, daughter, age 10, born Fulham, Middlesex; Sarah Ann Evens, Mother in Law, age 73, born Vauxhall, Surrey.

Buried at Fulham Palace Road Cemetery, Special Memorial, London.

NOTE: this soldier does not appear in the Regimental History Roll of Honour or in Soldiers Died in the Great War; but he is included on the CWGC web site.