Wilson T W Lt 6th Kings Liverpool Regiment
LIEUTENANT T. W. WILSON
6TH BATTALION THE KING’S (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT), T.F.
THOMAS WILSON WILSON was the third son of George Adshead Wilson (O.R., 1877), Merchant, of Aigburth, Liverpool, and Colonel of the Liverpool Rifles, T.F., and of Sarah Milne his wife.
He entered the School in 1905, and left in 1908.
After leaving Rugby he studied in Germany for nearly two years, and then returned to Liverpool to enter his father’s business. He took a keen interest in social work, and commanded a Company of the Church Lads’ Brigade. He was also an Officer in the Territorial Force for some years prior to the War.
In the spring of 1915 he went to the Front, in France, with his Regiment, and was killed on May 5th, at Zillebeke, near Hill 60, Ypres, under the following circumstances: After being twenty-four days in the trenches, the 6th Liverpools were relieved, and ordered to retire to a rest Camp. The enemy, by means of gas, gained possession of our trenches, and were on the point of piercing the line. The Liverpools were then ordered to return and recapture the trenches at all costs. Lieut. Wilson’s Company had to advance under a heavy machine gun and artillery fire, and in leading a rush he was shot dead. The Company went on and retook the trenches, and Lieut. Wilson’s Platoon was one of two which by their appearance caused the enemy to doubt what strength lay behind, and assisted materially in checking their forward movement. Age 23.
His Commanding Officer wrote:-
“He was one of my best Officers, and his place will be hard to fill.”
A Sergeant wrote that he was beloved by the men of his Company, and by his conduct and behaviour inspired them in all the dangerous work they had to do, and he was always with them, leading them every time.
Those who were best fitted to judge of his work with the Church Lads’ Brigade speak of his unbounded zeal and enthusiasm, of the value of the seed he had sown, and of the impossibility of supplying his place in a Company which he had raised to be the best in the Diocese.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1