Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookmpion Featherweight Cup in Boxing, Aug. 1901); entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet on H.M.S. Formidable, 15 Sept. 1901, became Midshipman, 30 Nov. 1901; Sub-Lieut. 30 April, 1905; and Lieut. 1 Oct. 1907; served the whole of her first commission on H.M.S. Formidable on Mediterranean Station; when Lieut. on H.M.S. Venus attended Mr. Winston Churchill as A.D.C. to Mombasa, and on the same ship went to Quebec for the Tercentenary Festival in 1908; appointed to H.M.S. Glory 30 Oct. 1913; transferred to H.M.S. Bulwark 29 July, 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness on the morning of 26 Nov. following. He _m._ at Weymouth, 17 Oct. 1914, Evelyn Maud, dau. of Thomas Charles Hooman, of Lilliput, Dorset; _s.p._ [Illustration: =Douglas H. V. Wilson.=] =WILSON, EDWARD HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 2056, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Henry Edward Wilson, of 45, Durham Road, East Finchley, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Robert Pritty; _b._ Tufnell Park, N., 17 May, 1895; educ. Owen's School, Islington, and on leaving school, entered the Head Office of the London City and Midland Bank; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria's Rifles, Aug. 1914; left for France 4 Nov. following, being attached to the machine-gun section of his battn.; took part in the capture of Hill 60, when the machine-gun section of the Q.V.R.'s rendered excellent service; and was killed in action by shell fire near Wieltje, at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the garden of a cottage 200 yards S.E. Battn. H.Q., Wieltje. His officer, Lieut. Brian Fargus, who was himself killed on New Year's Day, wrote in Dec. 1914: "Wilson accompanies me voluntarily whenever I go out on a prowl round the lines or up to some dangerous point. He knows no fear and has turned himself into my bodyguard; he is a splendid fellow and I think no end of him." And the Sergt. in charge of the machine-gun section wrote of his fearlessness of danger and conscientious attention to duty, and of the very good work he had done at Hill 60. He was a member of the Blackheath Harriers and had won a number of prizes at athletic meetings; he was also a keen cricketer and football player and an enthusiastic yachtsman. [Illustration: =Edward Henry Wilson.=] =WILSON, ENNIS NORMAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9005), 196524, H.M.S. Cressy, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WILSON, ERNEST=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WILSON, EWEN HOLMES HUMPHREY JAMES=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), only _s._ of the late James Humphrey Wilson, of Shona, Ayr, by his wife, Katherine Campbell, dau. of John Gordon MacMillan; _b._ Ayr, 18 June, 1892; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14 Feb. 1912; and promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1914; left for France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, his battn. forming part of the 1st Brigade, and was killed in action at Sablonnières during the Battle of the Marne, 8 Sept, following; _unm._ Buried at Sablonnières. His Major wrote: "His Coy. will miss him, and so do we all, as he had endeared himself to all his brother officers and comrades," and a corpl. in his platoon: "He died leading the men who adored him." At Harrow he played cricket and football for his house, and was a Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C. at Sandhurst. [Illustration: =Ewen H. H. J. Wilson.=] =WILSON, GEORGE=, Stoker, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WILSON, HARRY=, Private, No. 1278, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 27 April 1915. =WILSON, HARRY=, Leading Seaman, 233319, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WILSON, HUGH STANLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 8th Battn. Worcestershire Regt. (T.F.), 4th _s._ of the Rev. James Maurice Wilson, D.D., Canon of Worcester, formerly Head Master of Clifton College, and afterwards Vicar of Rochdale and Archdeacon of Manchester, by his wife, Georgina Mary, dau. of the late Admiral John Talbot; _b._ at the School House, Clifton College, Bristol, 28 Nov. 1885; educ. Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge; was an assistant Master at Rugby School; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 8th Worcesters as a Private in Aug. 1914; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., 29 Oct. following, and was killed in action in France, 14 Sept. 1915. Buried in the English Military Cemetery, Hébuterne, Pas de Calais, France; _unm._ =WILSON, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10493), S.S. 108189, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of James Wilson, of 63, Britannia Street, Belfast; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WILSON, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. 15442), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =WILSON, JOHN JOSEPH DEXTER=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27512 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Joseph Wilson, of 22, High Street, Waterloo, Pilsley, co. Derby; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WILSON, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 7473, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WILSON, ROBERT SYM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest _s._ of the late Andrew Hay Wilson, Agent, Royal Bank of Scotland, Leith, by his wife, Anne Wood (11, Drummond Place, Edinburgh), dau. of Christopher Wood, of Leith; _b._ Leith, 17 Nov. 1876; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perth; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Seaforth Highlanders from the Militia, Dec 1897, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1899, and Capt. 11 April, 1902; served through the South African War, 1899-1902; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including action at Magersfontein (wounded); the operations in the Orange Free State, May 8 to Jan. 1901, and Jan. to March, 1902; those in the Cape Colony, Feb. and March, 1901, and Aug. 1901 to Jan. 1902, and in the Transvaal March to Aug. 1901, and March 31 to May, 1902 (Queen's medal with three clasps and King's medal with two clasps). Between 1907 and 1910 he was employed as Adjutant, first to the Volunteers and afterwards to the Territorial Force. On the outbreak of war Capt. Wilson was in India with his battn. He sailed for France with the Dehra Dun Brigade (Meerut Division) of the Indian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 8 Nov. following. He _m._ at Murrayfield, Midlothian, 5 Nov 1902, Harriet Evelyn (Hawthornbank, Murrayfield), 2nd dau. of the late Alfred William Pearce, of Broughty Ferry, and had three children: Andrew Ripley, _b._ 13 Jan. 1904; Ronald Christopher, _b._ 15 May, 1905; and Marjorie Anne, _b._ 25 July, 1912. =WILSON, SAMUEL OLSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9787), S.S. 2446, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WILSON, WILFRED=, A.B., 212496, |