In Memory Of

WILSON, ARTHUR ALEXANDER

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 1892-04-17
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 3rd Bn.
Regiment:
 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of Death:
 1917-04-23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. B. 2.
Cemetery:
 HENINEL-CROISILLES ROAD CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
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