WW1 CASUALTY

lenc

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can anyone help me tracing this man wilson please?



this is all i know of him.the paper insert was on may 7 1917

could his name be wilson wilson?

i tried to search for parents but could not connect him to my tree.

robert costelloe was my grand-uncle.

as a beginner i would welcome any help or advice on how to proceed

thanks

lenc

R.Dub.Fusilier

its a little tricky to find out which wilson you are looking for without the christian name but i found two officers on the list of irish war dead and one is a military cross winner.

Charles Robert Wilson M.C. 2nd Lieutenant Royal Munster Fusiliers KIA France 24 May 1917.

Charles Robert Wilson 2nd Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps KIA France 24 May 1917. http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=302877

as both were killed on the same day it is possible its the same person.

if you would like to look through Wilsons KIA in 1917 yourself here is the link http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=wilson&initials=&war=1&yearfrom=1917&yearto=1917&force=Army&nationality=6&send.x=29&send.y=5

R.Dub.Fusilier

here is two attachments that might help.

lenc

thanks for that R.Dub.Fusilier!

i'm not sure if that can be my man though,because the paper insert was on may 7.

unusual that they didnt supply the whole name isnt it?

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arnhem44

Hi there,if he was mentioned in the papers then it is most likely that he had been killed in action up to a month previously.By the time the information filtered through to the family some weeks would of past before it was with them.Having checked the CWGC site this is the only casualty that has an Irish connection(that does not mean this is him),his rank is a Second Lieutenant. http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=774576

lenc

thanks arnhem44.i will look into these.

good point about the delay on the news front.hadn't thought of that.

johnny_doyle

arnhem44 wrote: »

.Having checked the CWGC site this is the only casualty that has an Irish connection(that does not mean this is him),his rank is a Second Lieutenant. http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=774576

following the thread for 2nd Lt Wilson on Rootschat too.

The above casualty appears to the the nearest to the newspaper clipping but is the son of Protestant parents from Scotland according to the census records.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000031408/


Details of his death are online at :

http://www.dublin-fusiliers.com/battaliions/10-batt/campaigns/1917-apr-gavelle.html

Unfortunately little info re him on Findagrave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=wilson&GSfn=Alexander&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1917&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=16108471&df=all&

lenc

thanks johnny!


i had wondered could it be him.it is possible that one of roberts sisters married in scotland.

i am searching the papers to see if i can find a more complete insert than the one above,but no luck so far.

one girl i cannot account for was margaret costello born roscommon 1860,one of twins.there may be others i dont know about though