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Second Lieutenant Frederick James Wilkinson, 8th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). 11th April 1917, aged 20. Son of Thomas and Jane Wilkinson, of Backbarrow.
KILLED IN ACTION
WILKINSON, Second-Lieut. Frederick James, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Wilkinson, of Backbarrow, was killed in action in France on the 11th inst. The first information received by the parents was contained in a telegram from Mr. O'Brien, Kents Bank, whose son, Capt. O'Brien, was the deceased lieutenant's company officer, and who had communicated the sad intelligence to his father. Intimation was also received in due course from the war Office. It seems that Lieutenant Wilkinson met his death in running from one shell-hole to another encouraging his men for the attack. The deceased officer was attached to the King's Own Royal Lancaster's, and had been in France just over three months. He was a cadet of the Inns of Court O.T.C., and obtained his commission in November last. He was only 20, but, in the words of a soldier serving in the same battalion, "he was very cool on all occasions and was a fine example of steadiness to his men." Before the outbreak of the war Lieut. Wilkinson was a scholar at the Ulverston Grammar School, and had passed the Northern Universities Examination with distinction.
(Westmorland Gazette, 28 April 1917)
KILLED IN ACTION
WILKINSON, Second-Lieut. Frederick James, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Wilkinson, of Backbarrow, was killed in action in France on the 11th inst. The first information received by the parents was contained in a telegram from Mr. O'Brien, Kents Bank, whose son, Capt. O'Brien, was the deceased lieutenant's company officer, and who had communicated the sad intelligence to his father. Intimation was also received in due course from the war Office. It seems that Lieutenant Wilkinson met his death in running from one shell-hole to another encouraging his men for the attack. The deceased officer was attached to the King's Own Royal Lancaster's, and had been in France just over three months. He was a cadet of the Inns of Court O.T.C., and obtained his commission in November last. He was only 20, but, in the words of a soldier serving in the same battalion, "he was very cool on all occasions and was a fine example of steadiness to his men." Before the outbreak of the war Lieut. Wilkinson was a scholar at the Ulverston Grammar School, and had passed the Northern Universities Examination with distinction.
(Westmorland Gazette, 28 April 1917)