John Hudson Wilson
John Hudson Wilson (1896-1919)
1919 Obituary [1]
JOHN HUDSON WILSON was born at Eastwood, Notts, on 14th September 1896.
His general education was received at the New Eastwood C. C. School, and at the age of eleven he went to Meaner Technical School, which was followed by two years at the Nottingham University College.
In September 1913 he became a pupil at the locomotive works of the Midland Railway at Derby, and two years later he joined the Royal Naval Air Force, spending two years in France, having the rank of Air Mechanic, 1st class.
In February 1919 he obtained his discharge, and reached Clipstone Camp on 1st March for demobilization, but he was suddenly taken ill, and succumbed from double pneumonia on 4th March 1919, in his twenty-third year.
He became a Graduate of this Institution in 1917.