Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major C. C. A. Wilson, Hampshire Regiment

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Lieut. C. C. A. Wilson. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted generally good very fine (3) £160-£200

Charles Congreve Archer Wilson was born in 1910, and was the son of the Reverend Charles Edward Wilson, M.A. of Charlton Musgrove, and the wife of Audrey Wilson, with whom he resided in Forest Row, Sussex. He was commissioned and served with the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on the North West Frontier. Wilson advanced to Major, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Second World War. He died of illness on 1 August 1942, and is buried in Charlton Musgrove (St. Stephen) Church, Somerset.