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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
49th Bn.
Death:
June 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Emily Charlotte Wilson, of 1776, Beach Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, and the late Herbert Charles Wilson, M.D.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
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Photo of Charles Arthur Wilson
From "The War Book of Upper Canada College", edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923. This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during WWI. -
Memorial plaque
Lt. Charles Arthur Wilson is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during WWI. UCC is located in Toronto, Ontario. -
Commemorative Plaque
Memorial Plaque commemorating barristers and students, members of the Alberta law society, who died while serving in the First World War. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 10, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y156uvic#mode/1up. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
As a memorial to her son, Lt. Charles Wilson, Mrs H. C. Wilson presented the new Colours to the 218th Battalion. Clipping from a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 183 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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