Glencairn WILSON

Glencairn WILSON Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

Service Number:	1819
Enlisted:	30 June 1915, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	13th Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Column
Born:	Camperdown, Victoria, Australia, 15 March 1892
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	25 April 1933, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Loch Ard Cemetery, Port Campbell, Victoria
Memorials:

30 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1819, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Melbourne, Vic.
11 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 1819, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
11 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 1819, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Borda, Adelaide
1 Apr 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 13th Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Column, Egypt
22 Mar 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 1819, 13th Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Column, RTA (date and ship unknown) and "services no longer required, having signed a confession that he deserted from the AIF in UK on 3 January 1917".

Help us honour Glencairn Wilson's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.