Burial - Thomas John WILSON

Another Great War veteran whose sufferings continued for the rest of his life. Taken prisoner by the Germans, he never recovered from the privations of working in the salt mines. For years he was a patient invalid, with a wasting bone disease, devotedly cared for by his wife, for whom and the family we express our prayerful sympathy. He was gentle by nature, loathing war and cruelty, but showed great fortitude, sustained by reception of the Sacrament. Tom was the last surviving male descendant of the Wilsons of Badsey, our oldest family, and at one time the village squire. They came to Badsey Manor in the middle of the 17th century.