WILSON, Peter Maziere Mercer
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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
Cemetery/Memorial:
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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Guardsman Leslie Campbell, No 3 Commando [more....].
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Fusilier Arthur Charity No 6 Commando [more....].
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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.
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Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
Photo of grave in Gallery:
Yes
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