Rushden Soldier’s Death - Bomb Exploded During Demonstration

After serving for ten years in the Regular Army, Battery Sergeant-Major George Albert Clark Wilson, of 121, Glassbrook-road, Rushden, was on Sunday involved in an accident while demonstrating the use of a bomb and has died as a result of the injuries he received.

B.S.M. Wilson was serving in Scotland, and had been on a course. He was to have gone home on seven days’ leave on Monday. He offered to demonstrate the use of a special type of bomb and it is stated that he bent down to pick it up, but before he could touch it, it exploded.

The news of the accident was received by his wife, Mrs. Kate Wilson, on Monday morning, and she was able to visit him in hospital before he died in the afternoon.

Aged 27 B.S.M. Wilson was a native of Higham Ferrers. The son of Mr. Alfred Thomas Wilson, who is now living at 56, Glassbrook-road, Rushden, Rushden, he was a member of the Rushden Working Men’s Club and the British Legion. Joining the Army ten years ago he had seen six years’ service in India.

A military funeral will take place at Rushden to-day (Friday), when a service will be conducted in St. Peter’s Church.