Blackmore Area Local History

Jacob Wiltshire

War Memorial: Place and inscription
Blackmore War Memorial. Listed as survivor: Pte. J. Wiltshire Essex

Rank:
Private

Regiment:
Essex Regiment. 10^th Battalion.

Service Details:

Jacob Wiltshire enlisted 10 December 1915 as number 35526.
Invalided from the Army 18 September 1917. [Essex  Regiment Museum]

Personal and family information:
Births Sep 1888.  Wiltshire.  Jacob.  Ongar. 4a. 299.  [Free BMD]

1901 Census.  Jacob Wiltshire, age 12, born Blackmore, living at Spriggs Farm with father George, horseman on farm, born Vernham Dean, Hants., mother Elizabeth, born Margaret Roothing and elder brother George born Roxwell.

Date of Death:
5^th March 1923

Age:
34

Where died:
Blackmore

Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Buried Blackmore Churchyard, his epitaph reads: "In fond memory of Jacob Wiltshire. Late 10th Essex. Died March 5 1923 from a wound received in France Feb 1917. Aged 34"

List of Sources:
Essex Record Office, Ian Hook: Keeper of Essex Regiment Museum, Free BMD.