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Douglas Wilson (RAAF officer)

D. E. L. (Douglas) Wilson
Nickname(s)"Del" [1]
Born(1898-12-01)1 December 1898
Lithgow, New South Wales
Died1 August 1950(1950-08-01) (aged 51)
Concord, New South Wales
Buried
Lithgow
AllegianceAustralia
Service / branchAustralian Army (1916–23)
Royal Australian Air Force (1923–46)
Years of service1916–1946
RankGroup Captain
CommandsWestern Area, RAAF (1945)
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor (1943)
RAF Linton-on-Ouse (1943)
RAF Wyton (1943)
AUSGROUP, ABDACOM (1942)
North-Western Area, RAAF (1942–43)
AwardsWar Cross (Czechoslovakia)

Group Captain Douglas Ernest Lancelot "Del" Wilson (1 December 1898 – 2 August 1950) was a senior officer of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II.

During early 1942, as an acting Air Commodore, Wilson was part of the short-lived Allied supreme command for South East Asia and the South West Pacific, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM). Afterwards, he was attached to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in North West Europe, and spent more than a year as a prisoner of war (POW) in Nazi Germany.

  1. ^ Cameron Hazlehurst, 2013, Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm: An Australian Tragedy, ANU E Press, p. 474.

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