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Military service
Service number:
1024357
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
September 4, 1890
Paisley, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 3, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 24, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 7.
Additional information
Son of Andrew and Alice Wilson. Husband of Frances Isabel Wilson, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Hugh Harold St Clair Wilson
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Photo of Hugh Harold St Clair Wilson
Harold Wilson, from a family group photo taken in 1907 when he was 17. From the collection of his neice, Dolores Moore. -
War Diary
This page from the war diary of the 3rd Bn Canadian Machine Gun Corps explains how on Sept 24th, 1918 while in camp the unit was bombed by an "aeroplane" and 35 O.R. (other ranks) were killed and 35 wounded. Hugh "Harold" Wilson was one of the 35 killed just 6 weeks before the war ended.
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Harold St Clair Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Harold St Clair Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 524 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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