09 May 2007

Percy Dwight Wilson

So gung-ho he enlisted twice... and contrary to the sloppy research in the Globe... it took all of 30 seconds to find both sets of attestment papers online.
He was sent home in January 1917, more than a year before the Armistice was declared in Nov. 1918. He apparently signed up again and was sent to Camp Petawawa for training, but the war ended before he could go back overseas.

While there are no records of his re-enlistment, there are pictures, dated 1918, of Mr. Wilson as a young man in uniform holding his trumpet at Petawawa.
There is first... 11 Jul 1916 and second, 23 Apr 1917.

He will be remembered.

PS... one further note to Globe fact checkers... Percy's father's name is Courtland, not Courtlan... as evidenced by his birth and marriage registrations and the 1901 Elgin County census.

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