Wounded In Normandy
L/Cpl C.E.J. Wilkie
Service No.
2885187
Company:
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
The Gordon Highlanders
Date Wounded:
Friday, 16 June 1944
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Possibly wounded by enemy Spandau (MG42) fire
Charles Edward Wilkie was born in 1916 in Maryculter, Scotland. His Mother's maiden name was Alexander.
Before the War, he worked for the North Of Scotland Bank.
He married Winifred Amelia Smith in 1944 in Aberdeen.
At the time of his medals being awarded in 1950, he was living in Montgarrie, Aberdeenshire. He left the Army as a Lance Corporal in The Royal Scots.
He died in 1983 in Aboyne, at the age of 67.
*Newspaper cutting from the Aberdeen Weekly Journal, May 18th, 1944.
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