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Sgt. William "Tug" Wilson DCM, MM.
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:West Ham
William Wilson was my grandfather. I have lots of photos of him in the army, also with a group of officers posing in France. I can send copies to you if you wish. He lost the sight of his left eye through shrapnel but it wasn't necessary to remove the eye until about 1966 He didn't talk much of the war at all, but from a cardboard citation signed by a Major C Ross, commanding the 6th Division, I discovered the Milltary Medal was following action on 24th of March 1917, north-east of Loos. From an internet research, the DCM was from action on 17th of September 1918 at St Quentin Wood, just 8 weeks from the end of the war and his 20th birthday on November 11th. I have WW1 pictures of him and other soldiers posing with medical eye patches, so I imagine he may have been in a field hospital on that day. As a family we visited both areas and the Hill 60 and 70 areas with him and my grandmother in 1968.
