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RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson, VC
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:35 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Wilson who was awarded a posthumous VC in 1940, died December 23 aged 96
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... on-VC.html
Wilson, an acting captain with the Somaliland Camel Corps, was given the vital task of siting the corps' machine guns on four small hills of the Tug Argan Pass – named Black, Knobbly, Mill and Observation – though they were too widely separated to cover their entire vista. Placing himself on Observation, which commanded the widest arc of fire, he was tremendously exposed on a position well-known to Italian truck drivers who had driven past it daily before the declaration of war.
Re: RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson, VC
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:42 pm
by VAdame
Wilson who was awarded a posthumous VC in 1940, died December 23 aged 96
I was going to ask "how is that POSSIBLE?" but the article explains it.
RIP!
Re: RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson, VC
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:42 pm
by MarleysGh0st
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Wilson who was awarded a posthumous VC in 1940, died December 23 aged 96
The Victoria Cross wasn't really posthumous then, was it?
Re: RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson, VC
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:42 pm
by KillerTomato
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Wilson who was awarded a posthumous VC in 1940, died December 23 aged 96
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... on-VC.html
Wilson, an acting captain with the Somaliland Camel Corps, was given the vital task of siting the corps' machine guns on four small hills of the Tug Argan Pass – named Black, Knobbly, Mill and Observation – though they were too widely separated to cover their entire vista. Placing himself on Observation, which commanded the widest arc of fire, he was tremendously exposed on a position well-known to Italian truck drivers who had driven past it daily before the declaration of war.
OK, I have to ask. Have to, I say.
If he just died last week, how was he awarded a posthumous VC in 1940?
Re: RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson, VC
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:44 pm
by KillerTomato
KillerTomato wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Wilson who was awarded a posthumous VC in 1940, died December 23 aged 96
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... on-VC.html
Wilson, an acting captain with the Somaliland Camel Corps, was given the vital task of siting the corps' machine guns on four small hills of the Tug Argan Pass – named Black, Knobbly, Mill and Observation – though they were too widely separated to cover their entire vista. Placing himself on Observation, which commanded the widest arc of fire, he was tremendously exposed on a position well-known to Italian truck drivers who had driven past it daily before the declaration of war.
OK, I have to ask. Have to, I say.
If he just died last week, how was he awarded a posthumous VC in 1940?
Ah, now I get it. I really should read the links before asking questions. Really.