Rifleman 3010 George William Wilson
Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 1st/5th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 13/02/1915
Age at death: 32
Date of death: 24th of May 1915
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Duhallow ADS Cemetery - V. B. 3.
BMD details:
Marriage: 2nd Qtr 1904 George William Wilson to Margaret Phillips at Middlesbrough, Yorkshire - North Riding. Vol 9d - Page 1057.
Census details:
1891 - 8 years old schoolboy George W is living at 92 Warrington New Road, Peasley Cross, St Helens with widowed mother Mary A (43) and two siblings: Alfred (17, Mary E (12). Also at the address are lodgers Mary Carson (35) and her son Robert Carson (1). 1901 - 18 years old 'Gas Works Clerk' George W is living at 32 Peasley Cross Lane, St Helens with widowed mother Margret Wilson (53), brother Alfred H Wilson (27) with his wife Alice Wilson (23). Boarding at the address are Alfred Crisp (42) with his son William E Crisp (13). 1911 - Sees 28 years old 'Gas Stoker' George W living at 85 Henry Street, St Helens with wife of six years Margaret Wilson (24) and three children Edna Adela Wilson (6), George William Wilson (2), Charlotte Martha Wilson (7 mths). Also at the address is sister Charlotte Martha Glenn (34) and her son William Ernest Glenn (10).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=12]Remembered On the Ormskirk Street Memorial, St Helens.[/url] Age taken from census.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=12]Remembered On the Ormskirk Street Memorial, St Helens.[/url] Age taken from census.
[pic]tpics/GW_Wilson_SLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Rifleman George William Wilson at Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery
(Photo courtesy of pupils at Sir John Nelthorpe School, Brigg, North Lincolnshire)[/caption]
