Talk:Alexander Wilkinson

Gazette search results
Search on service number, on full names David Underdown (talk) 14:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Marriages
I found a Times notice that he became engaged to the Honorable Muriel French, daughter of Arthur French, 4th Baron de Freyne in 1919, but no subsequent wedding notice, however I did find a notice about a baptism wehre Major AC Wilkinson and the Hon Mrs Wilkinson were recorded as being present, which suggest they did marry at some point. Then after his retirement there is a marriage notice for Colonel Alexander Camac Wilkinson DSO MC GM (so that's definitely him) to marry Mrs Marina Allsech in the Russian Church of St Philip, Buck Palace Rd, 1947-09-09., but then the Times obit says his wife was a New Zealander called Linda! Not impossible that he was married three times of course. David Underdown (talk) 14:19, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Married three times (at least!), played cricket with an injured hand for 20 years, decorated multiple times for bravery above and beyond the call of duty... if you made this guy up, people would say he was unrealistic! Andrew nixon (talk) 15:15, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually I'm now slightly uneasy about the bar to the MC. I had assumed that the gazette containing the citation was the one for the bar, but it's listed as simply being an MC, despite the fact that had already been gazetted, though I've seen cases where the citation wasn't published immediately before.  It's possible that in the chaos of wartime there was a mix-up, and I just haven't managed to find the correction.  Unfortunately in routine notices, the gazette makes no indication of any bars, but just lists the ordinary post-noms, similarly the recommendations for awards in WWII don't specifically mention the Bar, but they might not even if he had it.  I've found his WWI medal card on the national archives website, but that's primarily to record which campaign medals he qualified for, and whilst some do mention other decorations, his doesn't even mention the MC, so that's no help either.  However, it's listed in the Times obit, so I'm happy to leave it in for now.  David Underdown (talk) 16:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)