WILSON, Hector
| Service Number: | WX9068 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | PERTH, WA, 28 January 1901 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Platelayer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 13 August 1963, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 25 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9068 | |
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| 8 Feb 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9068, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Hector grew up in Perth WA, the seventh of twelve children of Burleigh Stuart Wilson (b1868 in Tyrone, Ireland) and his second wife Mabel Grace Dyson (b1874 in Perth, WA). Burleigh emigrated in 1875 with his parents and siblings, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Northumberland. Burleigh (a Builder) and Mabel met in Melbourne, Victoria and married in Guildford WA in 1893. The couple settled in Perth WA where Burleigh was a Builder and Contractor.
In 1921 Hector was working as a Lather in Perth, WA when he married Dorothy Josephine Carroll (b1901 in Fremantle, WA). The couple settled in Perth WA where Hector was working as a Platelayer when he enlisted in the Australian Army in October 1940. He was a Private (Service No:WX9068) attached to 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion when he was Discharged in February 1942.
Hector and Dorothy remained in Perth, WA where Hector was a Timber Worker and Car Polisher until his death in 1963. Dorothy died in 1988.