Wilfred Fleet

Malpas Cemetery

Wilfred Fleet

2nd Corporal No. 251785 1st Army Workshops Company 8 Royal Engineers.

(previously 19755 King’s Shropshire Light Infantry)

Died from heat stroke after suffering from exhaustion: Malpas 10 May 1920. Age 25

Buried in Malpas Cemetery, West Plot 106.

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Born in Malpas in 1894 (baptised 19th August 1894)

Third son of John and Elizabeth Fleet of Church Street, Malpas.

Married Mary Roberts in 1919.

The 1911 Census shows Wilfred as an apprentice joiner; he joined the trade union in 1914 with seven years at trade.

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Wilfred died from heart trouble arising from rheumatism suffered in the army.

He left a young wife (Unable to find a record of the marriage.)

Wilfred’s older brother Edgar also lost his life in the Great War.