F.+G.+WILSON

Wilson, Frank George, Private, 1834, 5th Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps Born Bakewell, Derbyshire Enlisted Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia Died of shell wounds to the head at the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station 15th April 1917 aged 27 Buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, I, B, 16

Australian Army Service records information: Frank Wilson enlisted on the 13th January 1915 at Liverpool in New South Wales. He was employed as a carpenter, and had previously served for four years with the 6th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He stated his next of kin as his father, Thomas Wilson, of New Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Five feet three and a quarter inches tall, he weighed 126 pounds, had a dark complexion, brown eyes and dark hair, and was a Roman Catholic, and he had a scar on the back of his left hand.

1911 Census A joiner Son of Thomas, an auxiliary postman, and Frances Wilson, a charwoman, of New Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire


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