Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 121

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name EDWARD PARKER WILKINSON (Private)

Arrive SES 1884

Roll Number 586 Died 19:10:1918

Set / House -

Lef SES 1889

Where KERMANSHAH, MESOPOTAMIA Serving with ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

Age 46

Buried Tehran War Cemetery, Iran Remembered Longparish Memorial Cross, Hampshire, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Panel) and the Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1872 in Finchley, the son of a clergyman. Little is known of his time at the School except that he was a talented musician, and in the IVth Form when he left. He attended the Royal College of Music, an organist and tenor singer 1892 and later the Guildhall School of Music. He was married in 1906. He settled in Longparish, Hampshire where he organised many oratorios and concerts. He travelled a great deal, especially around Europe. His other passion was the Territorial Army. With the advent of war he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the Southern Hospital, Portsmouth in 1914. In April 1917 he was still a Private, now attached to the 20th Base Field Ambulance Battalion, Royal Army Medical Corps in Mesopotamia. Here he was promoted to Acting Sergeant in the 20th Base Field Ambulance in Basra, Amara and Baghdad. In 1917 he overstayed his leave in India due to ‘undergoing dental treatment’ - as a result he was reduced to a Private again and assigned to the Deccan Military Military Hospital in Poona. In 1918 he returned to Mesopotamia but four months later he died of Pneumonia in Kermanshah in mid October 1918 just before the armistice. He was one of hundreds of British soldiers who died of illness in the heat and dust of Mesopotamia.