BeskrivningChaplain (3rd Class) The Reverend Walter Charles Wilks (6279211137).jpg
Army Chaplains' Department (attached 7 Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment)
The Reverend Wilks was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the First World War. He was killed by a shell, aged 35, near Boesinghe in the Ypres Salient on 4 October 1917. The Reverend Wilks is buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery.
Faces of the First World War
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