Brenda McMahon has submitted the following:-
Edward was born to his parents, Anthony and Maria (nee Hemingway) at Gateshead on 2 June 1889. He was baptised at St Edmund’s Church Gateshead on 11 July that year.
The couple had 3 children including Phyliss and Norman.
Maria, his mother died in 1896 at the early age of 42 when Edward was only 7 years old.
1901 Census shows Edward living with his family at 5 St Edmunds Road, Gateshead. His father’s work is shown as draper’s assistant. By 1911 young Edward seems to have decided to follow his father’s trade as he is with about 40 other young men listed as being at a wholesale drapery establishment at 60 Farringdon Road London EC. Whether he was training there or actually working there is not clear. It also shows he was living in the Clerkenwell area about that time.
Edward enlisted into the army at Westminster joining the London Regiment.
He died of wounds at 13 General Hospital, Boulogne on 17 June 1915 aged 26 years and was later buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
His father added the following words to his grave :- For King and Country
Edward Bertram Wilson is remembered at Gateshead in G39.004 and at Gateshead Fell on G39.064
