Oscar Lavender WILSON

WILSON, Oscar Lavender

    Service Number: 6157
    Enlisted: 12 May 1916, RAS Showground, Sydney
    Last Rank: Sergeant
    Last Unit: 18th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 1886
    Home Town: Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales
    Schooling: Superior Public School, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Despatch Clerk
    Died: Died of wounds, Belgium, 20 September 1917
    Cemetery: Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium
    Plot II, Row C, Grave 12, Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
    Memorials: Ashfield Presbyterian Church Great War Memorial Window, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Sydney Henry Bull & Co Limited Honour Roll, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll
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    World War 1 Service

    12 May 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, 6157, 18th Infantry Battalion, RAS Showground, Sydney
    25 Oct 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6157, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
    25 Oct 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6157, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Sydney
    20 Sep 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 6157, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 6157 awm_unit: 18 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-09-20

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Oscar Lavender WILSON was born in Surry Hills, Sydney in 1886

    His parents were Thomas WILSON & Agnes Eve GILCHRIST who married in Sydney in 1874

    He enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Showground in Sydney on 12th May, 1916 and embarked from Sydney on the HMAT Ascanius on 25th October, 1916 with the 18th Infantry Battalion, 17th Reinforcements

    Oscar was wounded and died from those wounds on 20th September, 1917 and is buried in the Sanctuary Wood Cemetery

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