PRIVATE WILLIAM EDWARD WILLIAMSON
YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT
16TH FEBRUARY 1916 AGE 19
BURIED: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, FRANCE
This is an inscription to touch the heart - 'We loved him', 'we' being his mother and father and two sisters, Grace and Miriam. In fact it was Grace who signed for his inscription.
In the 1911 census the Williamsons were living at 35 Victoria Street, New Sawley, Derbyshire. Father, Albert Williamson, was a lace maker and fourteen-year-old William was an errand boy. He served in the 2nd Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment and died of wounds in one of the base hospitals near Boulogne on 2 February 1916.