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Private

Arthur Wilkinson

Service Number 266469
Military Unit 2/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 25 Sep 1917 (21 Years Old)
Place of Birth Radford, Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies Colliery pony driver (C. 1911)
Family History

Arthur Wilkinson was the son of William Wilkinson and Agnes Brooks who married at Radford St Peter’s Church in December 1889. Their children included: Annie (b.1891), Walter Henry (b.1894), Arthur (b.1896), Ellen (b.1902), Agnes (b.1907) and Ada (b.1910). All were born in Radford. The Wilkinson family lived at 11 Dorset Street, Radford [C.1891]; 47 Dorset Street, Radford [C.901]; 25 Kennington Road, Radford [C.1911]. When a death notice for Private A. Wilkinson was placed in the local paper his parents’ address was given as 25 Dorset Street, Radford [n.e.p.22.10.1915]. The same address is given in CWGC post-war records for the Wilkinsons. William Wilkinson, who worked as a coal miner, died at Nottingham, aged 72, in 1941. His wife, Agnes, had died shortly before him at Nottingham, aged 70, in 1940.

Military History

He enlisted at Nottingham; killed in action; he was buried in the Wieltje Farm Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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