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He is also commemorated on the Memorial Tablet at Horsham Police Station, West Sussex |
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*The SD prefix was a very distinctive army number. It indicated that the holder had volunteered for service in the Sussex Pals and stood for South Downs Battalions. The South Downers were also known as 'Lowthers Lambs' after Colonel Claude Lowther who had been instrumental in their formation and recruitment. |
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Henry Sidney WILKINSON MM Born at Marylebone, Middlesex he joined the West Sussex Constabulary on 18th February 1914 and then enlisted at Worthing, Sussex. Serjeant SD/749* 11th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment Killed in action on Monday 30th October 1916 age 23 Son of Florence and the late Henry Wilkinson of London Buried at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, Somme, France Grave reference VII. C. 6. |
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Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France Warloy-Baillon is a village about 21 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The first British burial took place in the Communal Cemetery in October 1915 and the last on 1st July 1916. The Extension was used from this point on and although the fighting on the northern part of the Somme from July to November 1916 accounts for the majority of the burials. There are now over 1,000 Great War casualties commemorated in this site which they share with a small number of Second World War men. |
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The Men Index of Cemeteries & Memorials The West Sussex Men |