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Surname: WILSON

Forename(s): James

Place of Birth: Great Harwood, Lancashire

Service No: 12989

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: East Lancashire Regiment

Battalion / Unit: 6th (Service) Battalion

Division: 13th (Western) Division

Age: 24

Date of Death: 1915-08-09

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 114 to 118.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

James Wilson was the son of John and Isabella Wilson, née Butterworth. Both parents were born at Great Harwood, Lancashire.

1891 Great Harwood, Lancashire Census: 124, Church Street - James Wilson, aged 1 year, born Great Harwood, son of John and Isabella Wilson.

1901 Great Harwood, Lancashire Census: 78, James Street - James Wilson, aged 11 years, born Great Harwood, son of John and [stepson of] Mary Wilson.

1911 Great Harwood, Lancashire Census: 48a, Delph Road - James Wilson, aged 21 years, born Great Harwood. [James was lodging with John Turner. In 1911, James's father and stepmother were living at 7, West Avenue, Barnoldswick, Yorkshire.]

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte James Wilson, 12989, 6/E. Lan. R. Theatre of war first served in: (2b) Balkans. Date of entry therein: 1.8.15. K. in A. 9.8.15.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte James Wilson, 12989, 6th East Lancs.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte James Wilson, S/12989, 6 Bn East Lancs Regt. Date and Place of Death: 9.8.15. Gallipoli. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father, John, and Step-Mother, Mary, Joint Legatees. £5 13s. 9d.

James is commemorated on the Great Harwood War Memorial.

A short biography of James is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).

Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: East Lancashire Regiment

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: East Lancashire Regiment

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 13th (Western) Division

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 13th (Western) Division

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Surname: WILSON

Forename(s): James

Born: Gt. Harwood, Lancs

Residence: Barnoldswick, Yorks

Enlisted: Ramsbottom, Lancs

Number: 12989

Rank: Private

Regiment: East Lancashire Regiment

Battalion: 6th Battalion

Decorations:

Died Date: 09/08/15

Died How: Killed in action

Theatre of War: Gallipoli

Notes:

Data from Commonwealth War Graves Commission Records

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Surname: WILSON

Forename(s): James

Country of Service: United Kingdom

Service Number: 12989

Rank: Private

Regiment: East Lancashire Regiment

Unit: 6th Bn.

Age: 24

Awards:

Died Date: 09/08/1915

Additional Information: Son of John Wilson, of 27, Lower West Avenue, Barnoldswick, Yorks.

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HISTORY OF THE EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 (Littlebury Bros. Ltd. 1936)

GALLIPOLI, 1915

6th (Service) Bn. East Lancashire Regiment

It had fallen to the East Lancashire to play a part in the third and last attempt to carry the Sari Bair Ridge, the principal objective of the August offensive.

It was nearly six o’clock (a.m.) [9th August] when the two leading companies of the East Lancashire reached the position from which the attack was to be launched. The way forward led across some level cornland, known as The Farm, about half a mile wide which formed a kind of shelf amid the hills. Beyond this was the almost cliff-like end of Chunuk Bair, and on each flank were lower ridges held by the enemy.

Without any hesitation, although already under fire, the two leading companies of the East Lancashire deployed and advanced across the open, at once to be smitten in enfilade by a hail of shrapnel and streams of machine-gun bullets…The whole battalion now pressed forward though officers and men were falling fast . . . The battalions in the rear were thrown into the fight as they came up, but the Turks were well prepared and strongly posted, and there was now no hope of success… the survivors of the attack lay where they were until at dusk it became possible to withdraw to the edge of the Farm plateau where a line was entrenched . . . Of the East Lancashire not many more than 100 men remained.

[James Wilson was killed on the 9th August.]

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St Mary-le-Ghyll Churchyard, Barnoldswick

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