Name
Horace Septimus Wilson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/12/1916
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
6273
London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
21st (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WANDSWORTH (EARLSFIELD) CEMETERY
Screen Wall. F.B. 18. 9.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 3 Nov 1878 in Rotherhithe London son of Henry Richard Luff and Marion Wilson.
He was educated at the Royal Masonic School 1890-96 and was a quantity surveyor.
He married Maude Windibank on 25 Aug 1906 in Battersea, London and was living in 8 Spencer Gardens, East Sheen, London in 1911 and later at 30 Percy Avenue, Kingsgate, Broadstairs, Kent.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 23 Jun 1916 at Stratford, London and was undergoing training at Winchester when he caught pneumonia and died in the military hospital there on the eve of departure to Salonika.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
