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Lieutenant Colonel GAVIN LAURIE WILSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

1st/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 February 1919

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XLV. B. 10.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross
  • Additional Info Awarded Chevalier Legion D'Honneur, Croix de Guerre with Palm (France). Son of John and Margaret Thomson Wilson, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire; husband of Mary A. Wilson, of 78, Copland Rd., Govan, Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription CROIX DE CHEVALIERY CROIX DE GUERRE DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI
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