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The Roll lists his address as Paulettes Cottages, Eastfield.
(CWGC records that Private William George Wilkins, regimental number 32402, died aged 31 on 27/2/1917 serving in the 1st Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, and is buried in grave III.C.16 at Gorre British and Indian Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Jack and Louisa Wilkins, and as the husband of Rose Wilkins of Marholm Gates, Werrington, Peterborough.
William is also commemorated on the kerb-stone of his parents' grave in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see WMR ref 70062.
William George Wilkins' birth was registered in Peterborough in 1886. He was baptised on 21/3/1886 at St Mary's Church in Peterborough as the son of John and Louisa Wilkins. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 54 Star Road, Peterborough. His marriage to Rose North was registered in Peterborough District in 1911.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he served in the Middlesex Regiment under regimental number 3510 before joining the East Surrey Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Rose was his legatee).