BORN HULL 1887. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM WILSON & HANNAH SOPHIA BROUGH (1857-1915), OF 19 SPITTLE STREET, LIME STREET, HULL. SON OF AN OIL MILLER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 3301, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 5TH BORDER REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/09/1916, AGED 37. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, HANNAH, OF SCARBOROUGH GATES, LOCKINGTON, BEVERLEY.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, PRIVATE, GEORGE FREDERICK WILSON, ALSO OF THE 5TH BORDER REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 08/05/1917, AGED 21.
First name:
THOMAS WILLIAM
Military Number:
4413
Rank:
Private
Date Died
16/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
29
