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8 June 1919: Lt William ‘Billy’ Nichol Wilson

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Billy Wilson was born 23 August 1899, Dalston, Cumberland. His father was Twentyman Wilson and mother Sarah; they were both from Dalston Cumberland and had agrarian backgrounds: the Wilsons were blacksmiths and wheelwrights, while the Nixons and Nichols on Sarah's side worked a small holdings.  Twentyman got work in the then booming industrial t...