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• Name WILSON
• Initials JN
• First name JOHN NORMAN
• Place of birth Shahpur
• Country Punjab, India
• Family Only Son of Sir James Wilson, K.C.S.I. and Anne Campbell Wilson (nee MacLeod), of Annieslea, Crieff
• Education Ardvreck School, Crieff; Balliol College, Oxford (1910-1914)
• Profession Student

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 1st/6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
• Division - Brigade 153rd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 51st Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career 2nd Lt. August 1914; to France on 2 May 1915; invalided home, suffering from fever, January 1916; worked for some months under the Ministry of Munitions at the Gretna Munition Factory; rejoined his Bn. in March 1917

Death

• Wounded 2 July
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in Canadian CCS
• Date of death 4 July 1917
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 5

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