T.+P.+CAMERON+WILSON

Wilson, Theodore Percival Cameron, Lieutenant, General List attached 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Born Paignton, Devon Killed in action 23rd March 1918 aged 30 Son of the Rev. Theodore Cameron Wilson and Annie Fredeline Wilson, of The Vicarage, Little Eaton, Derby. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial

Wilson was almost an unknown poet - his 'Magpies in Picardy' and other war verse was published but attracted little or no attention. Wilson's work was rescued from the oblivion of many years when Field Marshal Lord Wavell included some of the poets verse in his own war time anthology.

1911 Census A schoolmaster Living and working at the Mount Arlington School, Hindhead, Surrey