Jacob Wiltshire on Poppy Trail: November 2018
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Jacob Wiltshire
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War Memorial: Place
and inscription
Blackmore
War Memorial. Listed as survivor: Pte. J. Wiltshire Essex
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Rank:
Private
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Regiment:
Essex
Regiment. 10th Battalion.
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Service Details:
Jacob
Wiltshire enlisted 10th December 1915 as number 35526.
Invalided
from the Army, 18th September 1917. [Essex Regiment Museum]
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Personal and family
information:
Births
Sep 1888. Wiltshire. Jacob.
Ongar. 4a. 299. [Free BMD]
1901
Census. Jacob Wiltshire, age 12, born
Blackmore, living at Spriggs Farm with father George, horseman on farm, born
Vernham Dean, Hants., mother Elizabeth, born Margaret Roothing and elder
brother George born Roxwell.
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Date of Death:
5th
March 1923
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Age:
34
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Where died:
Blackmore
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Place of Burial or
Commemoration:
Buried
Blackmore Churchyard, his epitaph reads: "In fond memory of Jacob
Wiltshire. Late 10th Essex. Died March 5 1923 from a wound received in France
Feb 1917. Aged 34"
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List of Sources:
Essex
Record Office, Ian Hook: Keeper of Essex Regiment Museum, Free BMD.
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