Wilson, DHV
(1884 - 1914)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
19th December 1884
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1897 - 1899
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
141 Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood
REGIMENT
Royal Navy
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
26th November 1914
AGE AT DEATH:
29
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
HMS Bulwark, off Sheerness
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Kent. Naval. 16. 812.
Lieutenant Douglas Henry Vernon Wilson
Born 19th December, 1884. From Dulwich he passed into H.M.S. ‘Brittania’ where he won the Champion Feather – weight Cup in Boxing in 1901, and entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet on H.M.S. ‘Formidable’, becoming Midshipman at the end of 1901, Sub – Lieutenant in 1905 and Lieutenant two years later. He served the whole of her first commission on H.M.S. ‘Formidable’ on the Mediterranean station. When Lieutenant on H.M.S. ‘Venus’ he attended Mr. Winston Churchill as A.D.C. to Mombasa and on the same ship went to Quebec for the Tercentenary Festival in 1908. He was appointed to H.M.S. ‘Glory’ in October 1913, but transferred to H.M.S. ‘Bulwark’ in July, 1914. He was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness on 26th November, 1914. He leaves a widow.