160580 Gunner NORMAN STUMP GILKES 5^th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Born 1893 in Ludlow the only son of two children of Malin D’Oyly Gilkes, doctor and general practitioner, and his wife Ellen Stump Gilkes. His elder sister was Margaret Wilson (born 1892). The family lived at 23, Broad Street, Ludlow. Norman attended Ludlow Grammar School 1900-04 and then transferred to Dulwich College. He succeeded in enlisting in the army at the sixth attempt and landed in France in February 1918.

Norman died, aged 25, of influenza (Spanish Flu epidemic) at the No. 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimeroux, France (known as the Australian Voluntary Hospital) on 11 November 1918, the final day of the war. He is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France.

His father Gilkes, Malin D'Oyley served with the Red Cross.

Photograph courtesy of Dulwich College.

Photograph courtesy of Clive Richardson