Name: George Allen Wilson Rank: Craftsman Service Number: F/93527 Service: No. 1 Canadian Base Workshop, Royal Canadian Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Date of Birth: March 30, 1922 Place of Birth: Digby, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: July 8, 1941 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Digby, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 19 Height: 5 feet, 4 inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Hazel Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Motor Mechanic Marital Status: Single Religion: Methodist Next of Kin: Frederick Wilson (Father), Digby, NS Date of Death: April 12, 1945 Age: 23 Cemetery: Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England Grave: Section 51, Row F, Grave 10 Commemorated on Page 576 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on December 1 George Allen Wilson was the son of Frederick Albert Wilson (1893-1979) and Margaret (Lavan) Wilson (1895-1973), and the brother of Ernest Frederick Wilson (1916-1973), Paul Henry Wilson (1917-1998), Donald Wilson, Gerald Wilson, Robert Wilson, Hazel Elliot, Dorothy Wilson, Grace Frost, Edith Wilson, Margaret Wilson, Barbara Wilson, and Jean Wilson (d. 1930). George’s brothers, Ernest and Donald, served with the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Canadian Army overseas, and his brother Paul served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (V25746) in Halifax. George departed Canada on March 12, 1942, and disembarked in Gourock, Scotland in the United Kingdom on March 23, 1942. George served with the Royal Canadian Engineers throughout 1942, 1943, 1944 and early 1945. Craftsman George Allen Wilson died when he and the motorcycle he was driving was run over by a tank ammunition carrier in a road accident on April 12, 1945. The accident was near the Tank Park Base Ordnance Workshop at Whitehill Road in Bordon in Whitehill, 5 miles of Alton in Southampton in the Woolmer Forest. He is interred at the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave photo: Courtesy Scott Wilson, great-great nephew of George Allen Wilson