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Lieutenant Colonel Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC (2 October 1912 – 23 December 2008) was an English British Army officer and colonial administrator. He received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Captain Wilson was in command of machine-gun posts manned by Somali soldiers in the key position of Observation Hill, a defended post in the defensive organisation of the Tug Argan Gap in British Somaliland.
Lieutenant Colonel Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC (2 October 1912 – 23 December 2008) was an English British Army officer and colonial administrator. He received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
The death has been announced of Lieutenant Colonel Eric Wilson VC, aged 96, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for heroic action against a large Italian force during the East Africa campaign in August 1940.
I felt honoured to have spent time in the company of Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, who was awarded the VC posthumously in October 1940, two months after it was believed that he had died in battle.
Eric Charles Twelves Wilson (1912-2008), educated at Marlborough School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhust, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment in 1933. Wilson was seconded to the King's African Rifles in 1937 and the Somaliland Camel Corps in 1939.
"The King has been pleased to approve of the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross, for most conspicuous gallantry on active service in Somaliland, to Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, The East Surrey Regiment (attached Somaliland Camel Corps).
