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Pte. Wallace William Wilkinson
British Army 6th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Darliston, Shropshire
(d.10th August 1916)
My great uncle, Wallace Wilkinson, entered France with the 6th Battalion, KSLI on 8th of August 1915 and was killed just over a year later at Courcelles on the night of 10th of August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Sucrerie Military Cemetery at Colincamps near Albert. The Battalion War Diary shows that he was one of eight men killed in a working party on the front line. I have visited his grave and it appears from the dates of the neighbouring graves that all the men were buried beside one another.
Before the war Wallace Wilkinson was a railway worker in Crewe and lived with his family at 2 Shrewsbury Road, Darlison, near Whitchurch in Shropshire. My grandfather, Allen survived WWI having served with the Manchester Regiment and the Notts & Derby Regiment (the Sherwood Foresters).
I first visited Wallace's grave in 1998 and then returned again on 10th August 2016 to be there on the 100th anniversary of his death. He is not forgotten by his family.
