WILSON, Keith Stillwell
| Service Number: | 52169 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 March 1942, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin |
| Born: | Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia, 11 September 1912 |
| Home Town: | Berrigan, Berrigan, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | State School Education |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand, Tractor Driver |
| Died: | Accidental (Ground Accident), Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 29 December 1942, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Deniliquin War Cemetery, New South Wales Plot D. Row A. Grave 7. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement 52169 | |
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| 19 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 52169, No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin, Melbourne, Vic. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Kenneth and Lillian Wilson; husband of Frances Marjorie Wilson, of Berrigan.
When a motor car struck a tree on the Cemetery road last Tuesday night A.C.1. KEITH STILLWELL WILSON received injuries to the head which caused his death soon afterwards. The driver of the car, Corporal A. V,. Delves, had an arm broken and sustained other injuries. Very little information has been obtained by the police concerning the fatality. Wilson and Delves left the Air Station, in a car after 10 p.m. to drive into town. When between the enclosure boundary and a culvert near Ochtertyre street, Stillard's bus was approaching going out to the Air Station. The police have been informed that the lights of the bus were very bright, and Delves left the crown of the road to drive on to the side, where there is a slight slope. He continued in this position, and the car struck a box tree growing on the side of the depression near the culvert. The left side of the vehicle got the full force of the impact, and A.C.1. Wilson must have been thrown forward and struck the windscreen and tree with his head. Corporal Delves, the driver, escaped serious injury. Wilson was soon afterwards taken to the Air Station hospital, where he died. The deceased was a fitter in the R.A.A.F., and was aged 30 years. He came from Berrigan, where his wife resides. The body was buried in the War cemetery on Wednesday.
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