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Name: WILTON, Robert Neville
Birth Date: 1909 Kings Norton
Death Date: 4 Oct 1940 at Giggiga, Brit.Somaliland, of wound, on active service
Area: Ol Kalou
Married: 1935 Joan Graham Heathcote b. 25 May 1910, d. 2 Dec 1975 Keighley, W. Yorkshire
Children: Julia Moore
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Aero, KR, Gazette
General Information:
Aero - Roll of Honour for World War Two, 1939-45 - Sgt. R.N. Wilton Kenya Regiment - Serjeant Robert Neville Wilton, EA Artillery - died 17/8/1940 - Addis Ababa War Cemetery [the death date is wrong, according to Nat Probate Calendar which has 4 Oct]
Gazette - 21/2/1933 - Dissolution of Partnership between William Maxwell Nightingale, John Westall Etherington, Humphrey John Sankey and Robert Nevill Wilton under the style of Nightingale and Etherington - dissolved by mutual consent.
Gazette 5 Aug 1941 probate
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 515) No birth date in KR records
CWGC also has 17 Aug 1940 as death date
Nat Probate Calendar says he d. on 4 Oct 1940