HARRY STANLEY WILKINSON
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Born: 1919, Ipswich.
Died: 9th January 1943; age: 23.
Residence: Ipswich.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 905167.
Regiment: Royal Artillery, 67 Medium Regiment.
The body was originally buried at Caserta Civil Cemetery. On the 8th November 1944, the body was exhumed, identified by the cross marking the grave, and reburied at Caserta War Cemetery, Italy.
Grave Reference:
III.E.17.
Campania,
Italy.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Harry Stanley Wilkinson & Alice Wilkinson; husband of Violet K.F. Wilkinson, of Belstead, Suffolk.
Father: Harry Stanley Wilkinson, born September 1895, Ipswich – died 1943, Ipswich. An Engineering Drawing Photographer and Copier.
Mother: Alice Gertrude Wilkinson (nee Woodley), born December 1889, St. Ives, Hampshire.
Family home – 271, Bramford Lane, Ipswich.
In 1939, Belstead, Suffolk, Harry married Violet Kathleen Frances Tye, born 1920, Woodbridge, Suffolk – daughter of Isaac Tye, a farm labourer, and Violet May Victoria Anna Tye (nee Francis), of Grove Farm, Belstead.
Violet and Harry had one daughter.
In 2013, Harry’s name was added to the war memorial at the village of Belstead, Suffolk.
Note: Harry was likely to have been a POW captured from the Fall of Tobruk. The cemetery was close to the POW Hospital at Caserta.
67th Medium Regiment, R.A. (T.A.)
HQ, 232nd (Suffolk) Bty: Ipswich
231st (Suffolk) Bty: Sudbury
The 67th Medium Regiment served under the command of IV Corps Artillery in the autumn of 1940. It was sent to North Africa in October 1941 as part of the Crusader convoys. It served under the 8th Army in the campaigns in the Western Desert from November 1941 until June 1942. It supported the South African attack on Bardia in December 1941. The regiment added (Suffolk) to its name on 17 February 1942. It was captured at Tobruk on 20 June 1942. Due to casualties, the regiment was reduced to a cadre on 7 September 1942.
The regiment was reformed at Hunstanton, Norfolk, on 7 February 1943 from the 167th Field Regiment. It joined the 3rd Army Group RA on its formation on 11 February 1943 at 49 Trant Road, Tunbridge Wells. It served in Northwest Europe with this formation from June 1944 until the end of the war.
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