Commemorated:

1. Memorial:St. Hilaire Les Cambrai British CemeteryC.4
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.138
3. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour13A GQS
    

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Family :

Son of George Thomas and Elizabeth Isabella Wilkinson, of Sheepwash, Bedlington, Northumberland; husband of Sarah Wilkinson, of 225, Westbourne Avenue, Gateshead-on-Tyne.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: 281st Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 

Action : The Final Advance in Picardy 

17 October - 11 November 1918. The final stage of the British advance saw them cross the Selle and the Sambre rivers as the relentless pressure was kept on the retreating Germans. By the 11th November 1918 the British army had returned to Mons, where it all started for them back in August 1914 when it made its first contact with the Germans, and where the war stopped when the Armistice was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Fawcett No. 661 E.C.Durham

Initiated
Passed
Raised
10th January 1912
8th May 1912
6th June 1912
 

Rejoined Fawcett Lodge 14th February 1914


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