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Sergeant WILLIAM PRIMROSE WILSON

Service Number: 1452338
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

7 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 16 December 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 16. A. 7-8.

Germany

Famous casualties: headstone of Sergeant William Primrose Wilson in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany. His brother John Primrose Wilson also died on service; his surviving brother is former Arsenal and Scotland goalkeeper Bob Wilson.

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Smith Wilson and Catherine Wingate Wilson, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire.His brother, John Primrose Wilson, also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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