Arthur played cricket for Wolverhampton Cricket Club on leaving school and also represented Staffordshire at county level.

He was killed in action prior to the fall of Singapore on Saturday 14^th February 1942 at the age of 33 and one of two OWs to lie in Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.

Son of Mein Wilkie & Winifred Tesse Ellen Wilkie.

This story is also available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-
First Lieutenant Arthur Digby WILKIE