Frederick Green Wilkinson

Frederick Green Wilkinson
Frederick Green Wilkinson
Born	15 November 1825
Died	1913
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Battles/wars	Crimean War

Lieutenant-General Frederick Green Wilkinson (15 November 1825 – 1913) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).

Military career

Wilkinson was commissioned as an ensign in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot on 27 December 1842.[1] Promoted to captain in the 42nd Regiment of Foot on 17 October 1851, he was present at the Battle of Alma in September 1854 and the Siege of Sevastopol in Winter 1854 during the Crimean War.[1] He also served at the Siege of Lucknow in Summer 1857 during the Indian Rebellion.[1]

He became colonel of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) on 15 October 1891[2] and transferred in 1893 to be colonel of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry until his death in 1913.[3]

Family

His elder son was Brigadier-General Lewis Frederic Green-Wilkinson (1865-1950).[4][5][6]His younger son was the Rev. Lumley Green-Wilkinson.[7][8]

References

"Lieutenant General Frederick Green Wilkinson 1891-1893 (Archived)". Queen’s Royal Surreys. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"No. 26224". The London Gazette. 17 November 1891. p. 5987.
"The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 23 December 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
Burke's Peerage, 1999, volume 1, page 130.
KELLY'S HANDBOOK of Distinguished People 1938.
Lewis Frederic Green-Wilkinson (1865-1950), CMG (1919), DSO (1917), who was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He married in 1904 Sarah May Trench (died 1934), sister of third Baron Ashtown, and had two daughters, Oonah Anne and Sheelah Adrienne Sarah who married her cousin Dudley Oliver Trench, 5th Baron Ashtown (1901–1979). He served in Burmese expeditions 1886-1888 and 1888-1889, Dongola Expedition 1896, 4th class Order of the Medjidie; Nile Expedition 1897-1898, 4th class Order of Osmanieh; South African War 1899-1902, private secretary to Field Marshal H.R.H. Duke of Connaught (Inspector-General of the Forces) 1906-1907, major Rifle Brigade 1903-1908, retired 1908, served in First World War, 1914-1919, brevet lieutenant-colonel, brevet colonel brigade commander 1916-1919; Chevalier Legion of Honour. Member of the Naval & Military Club. He lived at 10 Westminster Mansions, SW1, and Sacomb, North Saltspring Island, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. (Kelly's Handbook).
See nine photograph albums belonging to her sister Prudence Green-Wilkinson, sold at SAS auctions, Greenham, Berkshire, UK, 30 April 2019, lot 130.
Chaplain to the 41st Infantry Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division during the Division’s occupation of the trench line in the Ypres Salient in mid-1915. He married Myfanwy only daughter of Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet, quondam Liberal MP for Radnorshire. Thus Francis Oliver Green-Wilkinson MC (7 May 1913 – 26 August 1970) was a grandson, and Constance Hilaré Myfanwy (died 1982), aka Hilaré, who married Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder, VC (1908 – 1986) on 26 April 1941, was a granddaughter. (Burke's Peerage).

Military offices
Preceded by Robert Bruce	Colonel of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1891–1893	Succeeded by Sir Edward Smyth
Preceded by John Leslie Dennis	Colonel of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1893–1913	Succeeded by Fiennes Middleton Colvile

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[bio-1] "Lieutenant General Frederick Green Wilkinson 1891-1893 (Archived)". Queen’s Royal Surreys. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] "No. 26224". The London Gazette. 17 November 1891. p. 5987.

[3] "The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 23 December 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)

[4] Burke's Peerage, 1999, volume 1, page 130.

[5] KELLY'S HANDBOOK of Distinguished People 1938.

[6] Lewis Frederic Green-Wilkinson (1865-1950), CMG (1919), DSO (1917), who was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He married in 1904 Sarah May Trench (died 1934), sister of third Baron Ashtown, and had two daughters, Oonah Anne and Sheelah Adrienne Sarah who married her cousin Dudley Oliver Trench, 5th Baron Ashtown (1901–1979). He served in Burmese expeditions 1886-1888 and 1888-1889, Dongola Expedition 1896, 4th class Order of the Medjidie; Nile Expedition 1897-1898, 4th class Order of Osmanieh; South African War 1899-1902, private secretary to Field Marshal H.R.H. Duke of Connaught (Inspector-General of the Forces) 1906-1907, major Rifle Brigade 1903-1908, retired 1908, served in First World War, 1914-1919, brevet lieutenant-colonel, brevet colonel brigade commander 1916-1919; Chevalier Legion of Honour. Member of the Naval & Military Club. He lived at 10 Westminster Mansions, SW1, and Sacomb, North Saltspring Island, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. (Kelly's Handbook).

[7] See nine photograph albums belonging to her sister Prudence Green-Wilkinson, sold at SAS auctions, Greenham, Berkshire, UK, 30 April 2019, lot 130.

[8] Chaplain to the 41st Infantry Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division during the Division’s occupation of the trench line in the Ypres Salient in mid-1915. He married Myfanwy only daughter of Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet, quondam Liberal MP for Radnorshire. Thus Francis Oliver Green-Wilkinson MC (7 May 1913 – 26 August 1970) was a grandson, and Constance Hilaré Myfanwy (died 1982), aka Hilaré, who married Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder, VC (1908 – 1986) on 26 April 1941, was a granddaughter. (Burke's Peerage).