Photo: Dorothy Hall

124142 2nd Air Mechanic
L. Wilson
Royal Air Force
20th May 1918 Age 18

Beloved Son of
Tom & Phoebe Froud
At Rest

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

The Durham County Advertiser 07/06/1918 reports:

In our last issue we regretfully recorded the death at Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, of Air Mechanic Laurd Wilson, R.A.F., beloved son of Mr and Mrs Froud, Vane Terrace, Grange Iron Works, and grandson of Mr Joseph Wilson, High Shincliffe. The deceased served his apprenticeship at the Grange Iron Works, and eventually joined the R.A.F. After four months training at Aldershot he contracted pleurisy and double pneumonia, which proved fatal on the 20th ult. He was only 19 years of age. The remains, enclosed in a polished oak coffin, were brought home and accorded a military funeral at Belmont. The procession was headed by a firing party and a bugle band from Newcastle. Following the coffin there was a large number of mourners, sympathetic friends and the deceased’s fellow workers at the Grange. The obsequies were conducted by the vicar of Belmont, the Revd Chapman, and the Revd Bevan.

Laurd Wilson is remembered in Belmont on B137.01

For Your Tomorrow
The CWGC entry for Air Mechanic 2nd Class Wilson