Carlow
Eire
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This memorial is located at the Leighlinbridge Memorial Gardens, Co. Carlow. Inside the memorial structure are stone panels on which the names of the fallen are carved. Two members of the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on this memorial.
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Lorenzo ALEXANDER.
CO 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Susan Alexander, of Erindale, Co. Carlow. Killed 14 May 1915. Aged 42.
Born at Rathmindon, Co. Carlow, 8th September, 1872. Youngest son of George and Susan Alexander, of Erindale, Co. Carlow; husband of Mrs. A. M. Alexander, of The Thatched Cottage, Northiam, Sussex.
Buried LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY.
Captain Humphrey Worthington WILSON.
East Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 October 1915.
Commemorated Panel 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.
The following notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
Humphrey Wilson was born into a military family on March 19th 1876 in Carlow in Ireland.
He joined the army as a private soldier aged seventeen in 1893 and was serving as a Colour Sergeant at the time of the Boer War.
As Sergeant Major he was with the 5th Yorkshires in 1913 and after the onset of the Great War he received his commission on April 8th 1915.
Promoted to Lieutenant on June 10th 1915 he was then attached to the East Yorkshire Regiment and was with them when they went into the Battle of Loos in September of 1915.
Lieutenant, acting Captain, Humphrey Worthington Wilson was killed in action at Loos on October 4th 1915 aged 39.
After his death the Green Howards Gazette wrote,
“He met his death while gallantly leading a charge against the German position. A most gallant and conscientious officer, whose loss to the regiment is greatly to be deplored.
Lt Wilson was the son of Sergeant James Wilson, late of the Carlow Rifles.”.
Photographs
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