Frank Albert Wilkinson
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PANIC AT DANCE
LABOURER WHO BRANDISHED
ANCIENT PISTOL BOUND OVER
While a village social was being held as part of the Drayton St. Leonhard (Oxfordshire) Coronation festivities, Frank Albert Wilkinson, 19, labourer, arrived brandishing an ancient pistol which was loaded and in good working order.
He caused a panic among the dancers.
A policeman approached him asking him to "be sensible," and Wilkinson replied: "Come a step nearer and I'll drop you." The constable did go nearer, but Wilkinson fled, being afterwards arrested in the village street.
Yesterday he was bound over at Oxford, and told to give up drinking.
(Published in the "News of the World" in May 1937) |
Frank Albert Wilkinson was born in Abingdon, Berkshire, England on 05 April 1918. His parents were Cecil Francis Wilkinson (1889-1958) and Mary Wilkinson (b. 1888), nee Jennings. He lived with his parents in Bullingdon, Oxfordshire, England, in 1939 and was buried in the St. Leonard Churchyard in Drayton, Oxfordshire, England, on 09 June 1948.
Also buried in St. Leonard Churchyard were Gerard Albert Wilkinson (01 March 1947, aged 23 years.) and Edward James Wilkinson (04 December 1948, aged 69 years). |
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