The Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Aged 21.
Son of John Alfred Wilkinson and Elizabeth Wilkinson formerly James, of 10, Trevelyan Street, Eccles, Lancashire.
He was onboard the RMS Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes from a German submarine, in the Irish Sea, whilst it was enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Co. Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, on the morning of 10th October 1918.
The headstone notes that his body was recovered some weeks later, and interred on 9 November 1918.
His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties I - Z
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Aged 21.
Son of John Alfred Wilkinson and Elizabeth Wilkinson formerly James, of 10, Trevelyan Street, Eccles, Lancashire.
He was onboard the RMS Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes from a German submarine, in the Irish Sea, whilst it was enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Co. Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, on the morning of 10th October 1918.
The headstone notes that his body was recovered some weeks later, and interred on 9 November 1918.
His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties I - Z
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