Notes
This man was mistakenly listed twice on the Roll of Honour: once as "Harry Bernard Wilson" (see our Names record 591985), and again under this entry as "Joseph Wilson". In fact, the man's true name was Joseph Harry Bernard Wilson.
Both of the Roll's entries for him are annotated that he received a Military Medal, and that he was killed in action 24/8/1918. The Roll's mistaken inclusion of two separate entries for him necessitates that our transcript of it likewise includes a Names record for each of those entries.
This entry for him as "Joseph" lists his address as Park Road (which was actually the address of his grandfather, Mr T, Wilson), and incorrectly states he was a Gunner in the RGA, omitting any regimental number. [The other entry, as "Harry Bernard", correctly lists him as Gunner 895189 in the RFA, and that his address was 4 St Mark Street; it includes the additional comment that he had been recommended for a commission, but died before being gazetted].
(CWGC records that Gunner Joseph Harry Bernard Wilson M.M., regimental number 895189, died aged 21 on 24/8/1918 serving in 855th Trench Mortar Battery of the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave IV.B.19 at Pernes British Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of William Joseph and Alice Edith Wilson of 4 St Mark's Street, Peterborough.
The Medal Rolls record that Joseph Wilson's previous regimental number in the RFA was 512, and that he went to France as a Driver in the RFA on 17/11/1915; his regimental number later changed to 895189. The award of his Military Medal was published in the London Gazette on 2/8/1918 (Supplement 30830; Page 9254- Gunner J. Wilson RFA, attached to T.M. Battery).
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Joseph died of wounds on 24/8/1918, and that his mother Alice was his legatee.
Joseph's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1897. He was baptised on 16/7/1897 at All Saints' Church in Peterborough as Joseph Harry Bernard Wilson, the son of Joseph William and Edith Alice of Francis Villa, Eastfield Road. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 104 Lincoln Road East, Peterborough).