Frank Wilkinson

Frank Wilkinson

Second Lieutenant, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 2nd/4th Battalion

Died on 13 September 1918, aged 38

CWGC: " Son of James and Emily Annie Wilkinson, of 27, Rectory Grove, Clapham, London."

Born in Sheffield; enlisted in Sheffield

Remembered at Sunken Road Cemetery, Boisleux-St Marc, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Frank Wilkinson, one of three children of Manchester-born couple James Wilkinson, 63, a club secretary, and Emily Annie Wilkinson, 61. He worked as a commerical traveller selling cutler. Frank's single sister, Bertha Wilkinson, 34, also lived in the four-room household at 16 Gauden Road, Clapham.