WILKINSON, ERNEST Rank: Guardsman Service No: 2659469 Date of Death: 01/06/1940 Age: 33 Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards 1st Bn. Grave Reference: Block "S". Plot 4. Row O. Grave 2. Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUENhttp://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2095605/WILKINSON, ERNEST
Perhaps died in the hospital of wounds? http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2800/ST.%20SEVER%20CEMETERY%20EXTENSION,%20ROUEN "During the Second World War, Rouen was again a hospital centre and the extension was used once more for the burial of Commonwealth servicemen, many of whom died as prisoners of war during the German occupation." TD
He is buried alongside my Great Uncle Prince Whitaker of the same battalion who died the same day. Their regimental numbers are very close too. My Grandmother was told that they were killed on a canal bridge in Dunkirk. From the war diary I believe that they may have died defending the canal at Furnes. It is a mystery why they were buried so far away