Second Lieutenant John Hardy Wilson

Army Number : n/a (formerly Private 17253)

Battalion : 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Samuel and Frances Wilson, of The Yews, Kegworth, Leicestershire. He was an architect and surveyor. He went to France 14th July 1915, was commissioned on the 6th August 1916 and was killed in action, 7th April 1917, aged 33, during the attack at Le Verguier, north-west of Saint Quentin, France.

Buried/Commemorated : Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 1. Row C. Grave 32.

Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France.
Second Lieutenant John Hardy Wilson
Photograph of headstone kindly supplied by Barry Sisson.

Second Lieutenant John Hardy Wilson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Kegworth, Leicestershire.
St. Andrew’s Churchyard Shrine, Kegworth, Leicestershire.
Carillon Tower War Memorial, Loughborough, Leicestershire,