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Henry Turner WILKINSON

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Surname: WILKINSON

Forename(s): Henry Turner

Place of Birth: Bolton-by-Bowland, Yorkshire

Service No: S4/036171

Rank: L/Corporal

Regiment / Corps / Service: Army Service Corps

Battalion / Unit: 25th Lines of Communication Coy

Division: ---

Age: 36

Date of Death: 1917-12-30

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: ---

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: CHATBY MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Henry Turner Wilkinson was the son of James and Elizabeth Ann Wilkinson, née Bridge. James was born at Bolton-by-Bowland, Yorkshire and Elizabeth at Clitheroe, Lancashire.

1891 Bolton-by- Bowland, Yorkshire Census: Henry T. Wilkinson, aged 9 years, born Bolton-by-Bowland, son of James and Elizabeth A. Wilkinson.

1901 Bolton-by- Bowland, Yorkshire Census: Coach & Horses - Henry Turner Wilkinson, aged 19 years, born Bolton-by-Bowland, son of James and Elizabeth Wilkinson.

Henry was married to Jane Benson in 1909. Jane married Albert Shaw in 1920.

1911 Chatburn, Lancashire Census: Toll Bar - Henry Turner Wilkinson, aged 29 years, born Bolton-by-Bowland, Yorkshire (married).

The British Army Service Record for Henry Turner Wilkinson exists but may be incomplete.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: A/Cpl Henry T. Wilkinson, S4/036171, R.A.S.C. Theatre of War first served in: (3) Egypt. Date of entry therein: 28.3.15. Drowned at Sea.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: A/Cpl Henry Turner Wilkinson, S4/036171, R.A.S.C. Drowned at Sea 30.12.17.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: A/Cpl Henry Turner Wilkinson, S4/36171 [sic], A.S.C. Date and Place of Death: 30.12.17. Drowned at sea en route Egypt. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Jane and child. £6 19s. 1d. War Gratuity: Widow - Jane. £14 10s. 0d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Henry. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Jane, born 18.2.86. Address: 8, Tulketh Brow, Preston, Lancs. Children: Henry, born 18.4.12.

The 1921 Census shows that Jane, her son Henry, husband Albert and his son Albert Gordon Shaw were living at 7, Sandhill Terrace, Latchford, Cheshire (County Borough of Warrington). The 1939 Register shows that Jane and her husband Albert were living at 5, Frederick Street, Latchford. Jane died in 1960.

Henry, along with Private Lionel Montague Hindle (534381) (q.v.) and L/Corporal John Hitchin (303162) (q.v.), died when HT 'Aragon' was torpedoed at the entrance to the port of Alexandria. A Long Preston soldier, Sapper Alfred Percy Cooper (WR/290232) (q.v.), survived the sinking of the 'Aragon' only to die later in the War.

Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:

WILKINSON, Corporal H.T., aged 36, A.S.C., brother of Mr. J.W. Wilkinson, Coach and Horses Hotel, [Bolton-by-Bowland], drowned at torpedoing of H.M.T. Arragan, Dec.30, 1917.

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L/Corporal Henry Turner WILKINSON

L/Corporal Henry Turner WILKINSON

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Army Service Corps

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Army Service Corps

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Surname: WILKINSON

Forename(s): Henry Turner

Born: Bolton-by-Bowland

Residence: Chatbourn,Near Clitheroe

Enlisted: Blackpool, Lancashire

Number: S4/036171

Rank: A/Cpl

Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps

Battalion:

Decorations:

Died Date: 30/12/17

Died How: Died

Theatre of War: At Sea

Notes:

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Surname: WILKINSON

Forename(s): Henry Turner

Country of Service: United Kingdom

Service Number: S4/036171

Rank: Corporal

Regiment: Army Service Corps

Unit: 25th Lines of Communication Coy.

Age:

Awards:

Died Date: 30/12/1917

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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

1918

WILKINSON Henry Turner of 20 Villiers-street Preston Lancashire corporal A.S.C. died 30 December 1917 at sea Administration London 15 August to Jane Wilkinson widow. Effects £186 4s.

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RMS ‘Aragon’ (HT ‘Aragon’) torpedoed and sunk by UC-34, 30 December 1917

RMS ‘Aragon’ (HT ‘Aragon’) torpedoed and sunk by UC-34, 30 December 1917

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11 February 1916

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND – A Soldier’s Thanks

Corporal Harry Wilkinson, eldest son of Mr. Jas. Wilkinson, of the Coach and Horses Hotel, writes to Mr. Lambert dated January 10th from Egypt:– “Just a few lines thanking you and the Bolton War Committee for remembering me with another of their many kindnesses. I received your parcel yesterday, and I notice it has escaped going down with the mail steamer Persia. I am very sorry to say that thousands of parcels and letters for the troops went down with her. By the time you receive this, you will all know that the Gallipoli Expedition has been given up entirely, and to tell you the truth it does not go down very well with the troops; all the same, everybody seems glad to get off. Things are not working very smoothly in Egypt by any means. We hear that we are having relief in March, but we are not too hopeful of getting it, though we ought to stand a good chance, for we were in the first ship out from England on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. I have still to meet the person out here that I know, and I have seen most of the Lancashire Regiments, and met some of the West Ridings, who belonged to the same battalion as the Bleazards, but they did not know them. I hope the Bolton lads are doing well and keeping safe in France. Taking things as a whole we had a decent time at Christmas and New Year, and had Turkey, ham and beer for our Christmas dinner. It needs all our resources to beat this formidable enemy, for we are up against a stiff obstacle. Everybody who has met the Turks gives them credit for being splendid fighters and clean with it.”

09 November 1917

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND

Corporal H.T. Wilkinson, eldest son of the late Mr. Jas. Wilkinson, of the Coach and Horses Hotel, has been home on his first leave since the war broke out. He was attached to the 25th Company of Supply in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, having been stationed at Alexandria all the time.

08 February 1918

WILKINSON – December 30th, 1917, supposed drowned on the ‘Arragon,’ Corporal H. T. Wilkinson, A.S.C., brother of Mr. J. W. Wilkinson, Coach and Horses Hotel, Bolton-by-Bowland, aged 36 years.

08 February 1918

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND CORPORAL SUPPOSED DROWNED

On Saturday morning last Mr. J. W. Wilkinson, of the Coach and Horses Hotel, received word that his eldest brother, Corporal H. T. Wilkinson, was missing, supposed drowned on December 30th, and that word to that effect had been received from the Headquarters of the Army Service Corps. Private Wilkinson joined the A.S.C. soon after the outbreak of war and had his first leave last October. He returned for Alexandria at the end of November, and was probably, unfortunately, on the ‘Aragon’. Corporal Wilkinson was a very popular lad and many friends will be very sorry at the sad news. He leaves a widow and one child, and was 36 years of age.

A memorial service was held in the Bolton-by-Bowland Church on Sunday morning for Corporal H. T. Wilkinson and Private Dawson Parkinson. The Rector, in referring to the loss said:– “Death, after all, is the common lot of everyone, but to each one death is the entrance into a newer fuller life. The sadness is not the death, but the incompleteness and unsatisfactoriness of our lives. God meant each life to be perfect, therefore He must have some method of completing elsewhere that which is imperfect here. So we shall leave that which is imperfect to enter that which is perfect, and to those who realise what death really means; the entrance into possession, into fuller powers, and wider life, is but the lifting of a latch which opens the door into the bright light beyond. This is what those of whom we are thinking today are experiencing. They both fought for their country – one became a prisoner of war, with all its hardships, the other lost his life on a transport. Now they are at rest.”

The Dead March was then played by the organist.

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