Hugh Regardso Wilton

Forenames

Hugh Regardso AWMM

Surname

Wilton AWMM

Also known as

Hughie Regardso Wilton AWMM

Service number

WWI 26/423 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

13 Feb 1889 AWMM

Next of kin

• WW1 T. R. Wilton, Mangamutu, Pahiatua AWMM
• Mrs Isla M. Wilton (wife), care of Mrs R. McDonald, Rangitumau, Masterton, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of the Somme AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 26/423 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916-15 Mar 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 43 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Rifleman AWMM 4th Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion AWMM

Hugh Wilton was the son of Thomas R. and Annie Wilton, of Mangamutu, Pahiatua, New Zealand. Native of Masterton.

His brother Sidney Thomas Wilton (26/424) died on the same day at the Battle of the Somme. AWMM

Death

15 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, Somme, France AWMM II. C. 18. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22022151
  Further Reference
• HMNZT 43 - The Mokoian: Being a record of the early stages of the journeyings of the 4th Battalion N.Z.R.B. (E.L.O.) (Mokoian souvenir ed.). (1916, February). The Times of Ceylon Company Ltd.
  https://dunedin.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/201167
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/194064/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/194064
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  24: 25
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 43 - The Mokoian: Being a record of the early stages of the journeyings of the 4th Battalion N.Z.R.B. (E.L.O.) (Mokoian souvenir ed.). (1916, February). The Times of Ceylon Company Ltd.