2659469 Ernest WILKINSON, 1 Coldstream Guards

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

 

What's he doing buried down there?
At one of the Depots perhaps?

 

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

 

That would be my guess, especially if he was with one of the Base Depots.

 

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

 

Wow! Where is the information from as I haven't seen this before?

 

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