Arnold Wilson
| Sir Arnold Wilson | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 18 July 1884 |
| Died | 31 May 1940 (aged 55) Eringhem, France |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army British Indian Army Royal Air Force
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| Years of service | 1903 - 1921 (Army) 1939 - 1940 (Air Force) |
| Rank |
Lieutenant Colonel (Army) Pilot Officer (Air Force) |
| Unit |
32nd Sikh Pioneers No. 37 Squadron RAF |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II |
| Awards | DSO |
Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson KCIE CSI CMG DSO (18 July 1884 – 31 May 1940) was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918–1920. Wilson served under Percy Cox, the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia (Mandatory Iraq) during and after World War I, including the Iraqi revolt against the British in 1920. Wilson was the third Member of Parliament (MP) to be killed in World War II when serving as an aircrew member at the advanced age of 55.
Wilson was born in 1884 and educated in England at Clifton College, where his father James Maurice Wilson was a headmaster. His elder half sister was the leading civil servant Mona Wilson and his younger brother was the tenor Sir Steuart Wilson.
Wilson was tall and strong. He began his military career as an army officer 19 August 1903, having been awarded the King's Medal and sword of honour at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, being commissioned on the Unattached List for the Indian Army. After he spent a year attached to the 1st battalion the Wiltshire regiment in India, he was appointed to the British Indian Army and posted to the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, on 18 December 1904.
In 1904, he went to Iran as a Lieutenant to lead a group of Bengal Lancers to guard the British consulate in Ahvaz and to protect the work of the D’Arcy Oil Company, which had obtained a sixty-year oil concession in Iran and was pursuing oil exploration in partnership with the Burma Oil Company.
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