Raymond Oscar WILSON

WILSON, Raymond Oscar

    Service Number: 990
    Enlisted: 24 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 2nd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
    Home Town: Croydon, Ashfield, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Engineer
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 20 May 1915
    Cemetery: Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli
    Plot 111, Row E, Grave 16 Rev. A. Gillison officiated, Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    24 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 990, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
    18 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 990, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
    18 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 990, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney

    Raymond Oscar Wilson

    born May 26 1894 at Mount Druitt, NSW, son of Oscar Wilson 1866-1946 and Mary Giles 1872-1915, he was only 20 years old when he died at Gallipoli. His sister Christine Wilson 1895-1984 name her eldest son after her brother his name was Herbert Raymond Daniels born in 1916. Her husband Herbert Miller Daniels 1891-1959 also served in WW1 from 1916.

    Submitted 24 April 2015 by Denis Hilder

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Oscar McGregor Wilson and Mary Wilson of 'Garthowen' Brighton Street, Croydon,  NSW. Brother of Stanley Bruce Wilson and Donald Geoffrey Wilson

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

    Member of the Eastern Suburbs Rifle Club, NSW and a member of the Gladesville 19th Infantry

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