Aitken Millar WILSON

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WILSON, Aitken Millar

Service Number:	713
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 5 August 1916, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Courcelette British Cemetery Courcelette British Cemetery, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Camberwell War Memorial

World War 1 Service

10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 713, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 713, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne

Pte Aitken Millar Wilson

From In Search of Charles Albert Stokes DCM

Private Aitken Millar Wilson from Ballarat, Victoria. Killed in action on 5th August 1916 on Pozieres Ridge. Private Wilson along with Sergeant's Shields and Coltman were all part of a bombing party conducting a raid on OG1 trench. Private Wilson was carrying a bag of Mills Grenades when a shell has exploded nearby killing them all. Private Wilson now lays in Courcelette Cemetery, not far from where he was killed. When Naomi and I return to the battlefields we always return to Courcelette Cemetery to visit Private Wilson reminding him that he has not been forgotten.

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