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Mathew Wilson was born and baptized in North Dalton in 1890. His mother Mary Annie Baron married Adam Berriman the year after his birth and two half siblings were born in North Dalton in the following five years, by the time of the 1901 Census, the Berriman family had moved to Beverley and Wilson was with his grandparents, George and Mary Baron in North Dalton.
Wilson’s initial service number: 1936 suggests he was a pre-war Territorial soldier. In the 1911 Census he was working as a tanner’s labourer and living at 59 Norwood with his mother and stepfather, Adam Berriman who was a goods porter with NE Railways. In February 1916 Private Wilson Baron arrived in France with the 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. As a Territorial Unit the 5th were well thought of and consequently very much in action on the Somme. A short paragraph and photograph appeared in the Beverley Guardian on 14 Oct 1916, Wilson had been shot in the back and was recovering in hospital in Manchester. He transferred to the 4th and then 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, the latter moved to Italy in Nov 1917 and remained there until the end of the war.
Wilson returned to Beverley and in 1923 married Amy Hood whose family had lived close to his grandparents in North Dalton. The 1939 Register shows Wilson worked as a civilian at the Ministry of Defence at Leconfield and he and Amy lived at 44 Lairgate, Beverley. Wilson (Wils) died in Mar 1956 aged 65 and was buried at St Mary’s Cemetery, New Walk, Beverley
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