Photo: Dorothy Hall
E.C. Wilkinson
Durham Light Infantry
30th June 1915 age 36
Newcastle Journal 01/07/1915 reports:-
Yesterday afternoon Private Edward Charlton Wilkinson, 37 of No.2 Dobson's Buildings Low Spennymoor and a member of the 6th D.L.I. camped at Heworth was found on the road at Northside Birtley with his throat cut and an open razor grasped in his right hand. Harold Oyston of Birtley who found him went for assistance but the man died before anything could be done for him. He leaves a widow and four children.
Edward Charlton Wilkinson is remembered in The DLI Book of Remembrance page 262
