Wilson, William Charles Davidson
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 9th South Lancashire Regiment
Biography: Son of Alexander S. Wilson, insurance manager ; born Old Meldrum, 14 December 1893 ; educated Old Meldrum Public School and Gordon's College ; matriculated in Medicine, 1910 ; graduated M.B., 1915. As a final year student he served in 1914 under Sir H. M. W. Gray and the late Dr. Lister at a Red Cross Hospital in Wimereux, France. Wilson resumed his studies in the beginning of 1915 and graduated in July of that year. He immediately joined the 2/2 Highland Field Ambulance, was promoted Captain, and posted Medical Officer to the 321st Brigade Royal Field Artillery, then stationed at Heydon. In August 1917 he proceeded to Salonika, serving first with the 63rd General Hospital and later with the 81st Field Ambulance. At many points of the Salonika front he did advanced dressing station work, and was finally posted as regimental Medical Officer to the 9th South Lancashire Regiment. He was killed while dressing wounded in the final rush against the Bulgars, 18 September 1918, and was mentioned in dispatches by the Commander-in-Chief, Salonika Force, in March 1919. Wilson, by his courage, high ability and fine sympathy was a general favourite among his fellow-officers and men, and won unstinted praise from those under whom he served for his bravery and high sense of duty.
Date of Death: 18 September 1918
Burial Details: Name recorded on Doiran Memorial.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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