Service Details
Name:
 WILSON
Given Name:
 ARTHUR ALEXANDER
Initials:
 A A
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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Unit:
 3rd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-23
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Date of Birth:
 1892-04-17
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of The Very Rev. John Skinner Wilson, Dean of Edinburgh, and Lizzie Mary Wilson (nee Clyne), of Aros, Strathtay, Perthshire. On Keble College Roll of Honour. Entered College in Michaelmas Term, 1911. A member of the 1st Rugby Association XV, 1911 - 1914 (Captain, 1913 - 1914); Seniors' Rugger Trial, 1913. A member of the University Contingent of the Officers' Training Corps. President of the XIII Club, 1914. 3rd Theology and B.A., 1914. Commenced service on 2 June 1916. Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), 1916; attached to the 2nd Battalion, 1917. Served in France from 1916. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 HENINEL-CROISILLES ROAD CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. B. 2.

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