Charles William Wilson
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 16 April 1918, page 4
A letter was received Monday by Clifford Shields, Newport
patrolman from Charles Wilson Jr. Newport boy, now in France. Wilson states he
saw Charles Slimmer and Peter Mertes, Newport boys, recently.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 5 December 1918, page 1
Anxiety is being expressed for the safety of Charles Wilson Jr. son of Charles Wilson, former Newport city jailer, who is with the American expeditionary forces in France. Young Wilson has not been heard from since July and his relatives and friends fear some harm has befallen him. Efforts to get into communication with him have failed.
The War Department officials say they have received no work of his having been wounded.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 10 December 1918, page 4
Charles Wilson, former Newport jailer, received a telegram late Monday night from Arthur B Rouse, Kentucky congressman in which information is given that Wilson's son, Charles Wilson Jr. has not been reported in the list of killed or wounded given the war department by General John Pershing.
Congressman Rouse said in his message that in his opinion the young soldier is alive and well or the war department would have had some report on him. Wilson lives with his parents, 326 Elm st. Newport.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 28 January 1919, page 1
On the blood stained fields of France, near the historic river
Marne, lies the body of Charles William Wilson, Newport, soldier, who died that
democracy might live. He made the supreme sacrifice during the closing days of
the great war.
Official notice of the death of Private Wilson was received in Newport Monday night from the War Department. Private Wilson is the son of Charles Wilson, former Newport jailer, who lives at 326 Elm st.
The soldier enlisted in the United States Infantry in the early days of the conflict and was among the first American troops to reach the field of battle.