Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant D. M. Wilson, Royal Engineers, who was appointed to a commission on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme

1914-15 Star (133 C.Q.M.Sjt. D. M. Wilson. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. M. Wilson.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (David Morice Wilson) very fine (5) £100-£140

David Morice Wilson was born in Aberdeen on 15 June 1882 and was appointed Temporary Boy Copyist in the Civil Service (Post Office) in December 1898. Attesting for the Royal Engineers on 27 April 1908, he served as a Telegraphist with the 5/1st Highland Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers Territorial Force. Advanced Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 14 December 1914, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 May 1915 and was appointed to a commission in the Signal Service on 1 July 1916 - his references being the Superintendent of the Aberdeen General Post Office and the Principal of Robert Gordon’s Technical College, Aberdeen.

Discharged on 1 July 1919 whilst a Lieutenant with ‘L’ Signal Battalion, Wilson returned to his work with the General Post Office and was later awarded the Imperial Service Medal as Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist (Aberdeen) in the London Gazette of 10 July 1942. He died in Harrow in 1969.

Sold with copied Officer Service Record and other research.