William Franklin WILSON

Regimental number64400
OccupationLabourer
Next of kinWife, Mrs D E Wilson, 23 Spring Street, Morningside, Auckland
Rank on embarkationLance Corporal
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 32nd Reinforcements, E Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board HMNZT 96 Maunganui on 21 November 1917
Final rankPrivate
Final unit2nd Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
FateDied of wounds 23 October 1918
Age at death from cemetery records28
Place of burialRomeries Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot I, Row D, Grave No 17), nr Solemes, France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Katherine Ann and the late Joseph Wilson, Auckland; Wife: Dorothy Emily Wilson, 23 Spring Street, Morningside, Auckland
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 3: Roll 75, p. 37

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