BORN MIDDLESBROUGH 1879. ENLISTED IN THE ‘HULL PALS’. EX 279 11TH EYR. HE MARRIED ZILLAH BAIRSTOW AT HULL IN JULY 1896. PRIOR TO WAR, HE WORKED FOR THE HULL LABOUR EXCHANGE FOR THREE YEARS. BEFORE HIS APPOINTMENT BY THE BOARD OF TRADE, HE ACTED FOR ELEVEN YEARS, AS ASSISTANT SCHOOLMASTER, ON THE TRAINING SHIP ‘SOUTHAMPTON’, WHICH WAS MOORED IN THE HUMBER FROM 1886.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. saying he was born in 1885. FORMERLY, 11/279, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED AS A SERGEANT, IN THE 1/5TH PRINCE OF WALES OWN WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN FRANCE ON THE 15TH JULY 1916, AGED 37. BURIED ON THE SOMME. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ZELLAH BAIRSTOW WILSON.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 15TH JULY 1916 AND 8TH AUGUST 1916.
Wilson, Robert
First name:
ROBERT
Military Number:
5537
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
15/07/1916
Place died:
Authuile Military Cemetery, Authuille, Somme, France
Age:
37
