WILSON, Wilfred Campbell
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | 1901, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Ballarat Learmonth - All Saints' Anglican Church Memorial Window |
Boer War Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
“TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILFRID CAMPBELL WILSON, LIEUTENANT NORTHUMBERLAND COMPANY, IMPERIAL YEOMANRY, SECOND SON OF SIR SAMUEL WILSON KT. OF ERCILDOUNE; HIS BROTHERS CLARENCE AND HERBERT DEDICATE THIS WINDOW”.
“HE WAS BORN III [3rd] MARCH MDCCCLXXII [1872] AND ON XX [20th] FEBRUARY MDCCCCI [1901] SUCCUMBED TO WOUNDS RECEIVED AT HEARTEBEESTFONTEIN, IN THE TRANSVAAL, WHILE LEADING HIS SQUADRON INTO ACTION ON XVIII [18TH] FEBRUARY MDCCCCCI [1901]”.
The donors of the window were Wilfred’s brothers, Clarence Chesney Wilson and Herbert Haydon Wilson of ‘Ercildoune’ near Burrumbeet in the west of Victoria. The window depicts St George slaying the Dragon in the left light and St Alban’s in the right light.
Yesterday a window on the opposite side of the church was unveiled to the memory of the late Lieutenant Wilson, who was wounded in the same engagement as Sergeant Vaughan, and died two days afterwards. The ceremony was performed by the Ven. Archdeacon Tucker, the church being crowded. The Archdeacon said – “I unveil this window in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This window was dedicated to the glory of God, and in memory of the late Wilfred Campbell Wilson.” He then preached an eloquently patriotic sermon from the 5th chapter of Judges. The window, which is of a very handsome design, represents on the one panel St. George and the Dragon, and on the other St. Alban’s, across the latter being inscribed – “Stus Alban proto martyr.” The first panel bears the family coat of arms, and in the corner the words – “To the glory of God, and in loving memory of Wilfred Campbell Wilson, Lieutenant Northumberland Company Imperial Yeomanry, second son of Sir Samuel Wilson, Kt., of Ercildoune. His brothers, Clarence and Herbert, dedicated this window.” In a corner of the other panel were inscribed the dates of birth and death of Lieutenant Wilson, The two windows – that in memory of Sergeant Vaughan being executed in Melbourne, and Lieutenant Wilson’s in England – are magnificent ornaments to the church, and very handsome monuments to two illustrious men. The Rev. C. L. H. Rupp conducted the first part of the service. Appropriate hymns were sung. There were present from the Ercildoune Estate the manager, Mr Raleigh, and others, and the relations of the late Sergeant Vaughan were also present.”
The window was made by the English stained glass firm of Charles Eamer Kempe and includes the companies trade-mark ‘Wheat-Sheaf’ symbol in the bottom left quarter of the window near St George’s foot.
In 1876, their father, Sir Samuel Wilson, also donated the ‘Parables” stained Glass Window to Scots Church in Collins Street Melbourne which was made by Ferguson & Urie. Other Wilson properties, including ‘Longerenong’ and his brother John’s ‘Woodlands’, also had secular stained glass windows by Ferguson & Urie. The chancel window of All Saints at Learmonth is an excellent example of their Gothic work from the 1870s