WILSON, Peter Maziere Mercer

Rank: 
Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Artillery
Service: 
Army
Number: 
118467
Died : 
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
23
Lieutenant Peter Wilson was killed in action during operations at Normandy, France. Son of Richard Mercer Wilson and Rhoda Mercer Wilson, of High Holborn, London. He is buried alongside 2 other Commandos and an Airborne Soldier. The grave where he was first buried is in a film of Pegasus Bridge on the 28th July 1944 now on the IWM website [view film].
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  • Fusilier Arthur Charity No 6 Commando [more....].
  • Lance Corporal Fred Greenhalgh, 2nd Airborne Ox and Bucks LI [more....]​.
His brother Midshipman Stephen Richard Mercer Wilson died when H.M.S. Royal Oak was torpedoed in Scapa Flow on 14 October 1939 [more....].
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/6.
IWM Film Catalogue number ACB 86 © IWM.​
Report about both brothers in the Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 05 August 1944.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
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