Frederick
James
Willson
AMICE
Born in Bengal, India
Ancestors 
Brother of
Charles Boswell Willson and William Alick Parkinson Willson
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 27
in Iraq
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Sep 2020
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Biography
Lieutenant Frederick Willson AMICE was killed in action in Iraq during World War I.
Frederick was born in 1889. He was the son of James Willson and Fanny Johnstone. He passed away in 1917.
Sources
- birth: Chr 15 Aug 1899 Shillong, Bengal has date of birth "India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGXR-NFJ : 5 February 2020), Frederick James Willson, 1889.
- death: See military service
- military service: Indian Army Reserve of Officers
- Navy & Military Press Ltd. De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914-24 United Kingdom p238: "WILLSON, Frederick James, 2nd Lieut, 1st King George's Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, eldest s of James Willson, of The Mill House, Ballinasloe, MA IES (retired), by his wife, Alice, dau of Frederick John Johnstone, CIE PWD (retired), late Chief Secretary, Bengal, in Public Works Department; and brother to Lieut WAP Willson (qv); b. Shillong, Assam, India, 15 July 1889; ... died in a Field Ambulance 10 Jan 1917, from wounds received in action at Sanna-i-yat on the 8th. Buried at Sandy Ridge, Felahiyeh, on the banks of the Tigris. ..."
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission database entry: Lieutenant Frederick James Willson
- Buried Amara War Cemetery, Al 'Amarah, Maysan, Iraq, XXI B1
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