Regiment Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 7th Battalion
Later Queens Lancashire Regiment
Now Duke of Lancaster Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Lodge Farm, Dudmaston, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England
Place Of Death La Boiselle, Somme, France
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery, 5 miles north east of Albert, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
HeadstonePlot/Grave no. Pier 11, Face A
Gazetted 26 September 1916
VC Presented 29 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Mr C E Orde Wilkinson
Memorials
P Named On Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
P Memorial Plaque, St Andrews Churchyard, Quatt, Shropshire
P Named On War Memorial, Wellington School, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named On Oak Victoria Cross Memorial, Wellington School, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Wellington School, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named On War Memorial, Parkside School, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Quatt, Shropshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Named On War Memorial, Sandwick, British Columbia, Canada
Wallet containing two letters to his parents and original citation written by Lieutenant-Colonel Sherbrooke at the Museum of The Queen's Lancashire Regiment, Fulwood Barracks, Preston, Lancashire
By The Way…
He was in Canada at the time war broke out, he made his own way back to England to join up
VC Held By
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England
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Thank you to Jill Shepherd, librarian and archivist at Wellington College
Thank you to Mr Beach, Headmaster at Parkside School, Stoke D' Abernon, to photograph the school War Memorial
