Name
Daniel Wilson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
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Headstone Inscription
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UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Daniel Wilson was born on 2nd June 1883 at Abbots Langley. He was one of four children born to Benjamin and Mary Wilson. Mary (nee Terry) had another son (William Terry) from a previous relationship. At the time of the 1891 Census, Benjamin was not present- presumably had died – and with Mary as the Head of the Household, the family lived at Troley Bottom, Abbots Langley. William Terry married Emma Pollard on 23rd December 1893 at Leavesden, and by the time of the 1901 Census Daniel had moved from the family home and lived with his brother’s family. He worked as a General Agricultural Labourer. William’s family lived at Gander’s Ash, Leavesden, and two of his sons, Harold and Ernest served in the Great War .
Daniel married Mary Coombs on 4th June 1910 at Leavesden. He was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in September 1914, serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment. From November 1914 he was not recorded in the Abbots Langley records, however he was recorded in the All Saints Leavesden Parish Records. In the October 1914 Leavesden Parish Magazine it was recorded that Daniel had “joined HM Forces”, and had previously been employed as an Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum .
Daniel’s Uncle, John Terry, lived at Breakspear Road (1901) and Marlin Square (1911), Abbots Langley, and his sons Humphrey and John (junior) both served in the Great War.
Daniel Wilson survived the War, as did his nephews Harold and Ernest Terry from Leavesden, and his cousins Humphrey and John Terry from Abbots Langley.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
