WILSON, Peter Maziere Mercer

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Rank: 
Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Artillery
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
118467
Died : 
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
23
Cemetery/Memorial: 
La Deliverande War Cemetery, Douvres
Lieutenant Peter Wilson, 'F' Troop, 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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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.
Nom. Roll of F tp from Maj Jimmy Dunning.
IWM Film Catalogue number ACB 86 © IWM.​
Report about both brothers in the Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 05 August 1944.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
4 Commando Roll of Honour
Photo of Commando in Gallery: 
Yes
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
Yes
Additional content: 
Normandy - Operation Overlord
Archive pages : 
No 4 Commando

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