In Memory Of

WILSON, GORDON FARQUHARSON

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 1134
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 1st Regt.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1917-09-24
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. A. 6.
Cemetery:
 NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
Son of Robert Henderson Wilson and Katherine Georgina Wilson, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Born in 1892, and attended George Watson's College in 1904-7. On leaving School he returned to South Africa, and became manager of a large farm in the Transvaal. When war broke out he enlisted and went through the campaigns in German South West Africa. Volunteering for further service, he was sent to Egypt, and from there was invalided to England. He later was sent to France where he was promoted Sgt. His brother also died on service