HARDING Wilson

  • First Name(s):
    Wilson 
  • Surname:
    HARDING
  • Service Number:
    15284
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    3rd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    29th March 1915
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France, Grave J. 52.
  • Place of Birth:
    Hampton, Worcestershire, resident and enlisted Evesham, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

HARDING Wilson Is Named On These Memorials

Great Hampton Parochial School now in Hampton St Andrews C of E First School
Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial with the information: Worc Regt.

Further Information About HARDING Wilson

Additional information on the memorial: Worc Regt

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, 15th January 1916:
FOR KING and COUNTRY €“ LOCAL MEN KILLED AND MISSING €“ HAMPTON
Harding, Pte. Wilson, 3rd Worcesters, died of wounds, March 29, 1915.

(Wilson was the son of Wilson and Ellen Harding (nee Salter) who were married in 1891.)

The clock on Hampton St Andrew’s Church is a war memorial to WW1 and is inscribed with the words: War Memorial 1914-18.

The tenor bell is inscribed “also in memory of the sons of Hampton who died for the sacred cause of liberty and freedom”.  The name of Alfred Bowell is inscribed on one of the bells, his granddaughter is currently a bell ringer at the church.

If you have any information about HARDING Wilson, please get in touch
Credits: Researched by Peter Stewart. Inscription on the church bells courtesy of John Smith.