Roll of Honour - Sussex

Captain. Born 30 November 1876, eldest son of The Rev. Alfred Wilson, M.A., Vicar of Bedford Park, Chiswick, London, and Fanny Wilson; husband of Mary Barnes Wilson, of The North House, Petworth, Sussex. In the 1881 census he was aged 4, born Hammersmith, Middlesex, son of Alfred and Fanny Wilson, resident 2, Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, Brentford, Middlesex. He was at Charterhouse [D] 1891-1895. In the 1891 census he was aged 14, born Hammersmith, Middlesex, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse, L Marshall, Sandy Road, Godalming, Guildford, Surrey. He went up to Christ Church College, Oxford where he read medicine. Listed in the Medical Register 1913 as resident Petworth, Sussex, registered 6 October 1902, M.B., Bacheor of Surgery 1902, University College, Ocford. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the Rifle Brigade. He died of wounds on 8 April 1918, aged 41. His grave is at ETRETAT CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, Seine-Maritime, France. Plot II. Row C. Grave 9. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey.

C. E. A. Wilson, Esq., St. Thomas' Hospital, S.E.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 3, page 288:

WILSON, CHARLES EDGAR ANDREW, Capt.; R.A.M.C., attd. 9th Battn.The Rifle Brigade, s. of the late Rev. Alfred Wilson, Vicar of St. Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London, W., by his. wife, Fanny, dam. of Charles Henry Cobbe, Major Bengal Infantry; b. London, 30 Nov. 1877; educ. Ashtead, co. Surrey; Charterhouse, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained Final First Class Honours in-Physiology; joined St. Thomas's Hospital,. London, S.W., in 1899; graduated in 1902; subsequently held house appointments at the. General Hospital, Birmingham, and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, W.C., and later practised at Petworth, co. Sussex; gazetted Capt. R.A.M.C. in Sept. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from that month, and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Etretat, 8 April, 1918, from wounds received In action at St. Quentin, on the 28th of the previous month. The Colonel of the Northumberland Fusiliers, to which he was attached, wrote : "He was loved and admired by us all, and I know that personally I have lost a great friend, one of the kindest and most sympathetic men I have known," and the Colonel of the Rifle Brigade: "He is a great loss to us all, the best doctor we ever had; we all loved him." He was recommended for the Military Cross for conspicuous courage and bravery under heavy fire, He m. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 23 April, 1908, Mary (The North House, Petworth. co. Sussex), dau. of Nicholas Mein, and had a son, Richard Nicholas, b. 27 Feb. 1909.

Extract from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1918:

WILSON Charles Edgar Andrew of the North House Petworth Sussex captain R.A.M.0 died 8 April 1918 in France Probate London 7 August to Mary Barnes Wilson widow and the Public Trustee. Effects £8450 14s. 3d.

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