Frank O'Brien Wilson

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Lieutenant Frank O'Brien Wilson, D.S.O., R.N. (30 April, 1883 – ) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born the son of a Colonel in Biarritz, France.

Wilson was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 January, 1904.

Wilson completed his first, and what would also prove to be his only naval command on 1 February, 1910, when he paid off Vixen. He resigned his commission on 18 April, 1910. He would fight in the War, and be awarded a D.S.O., as a Captain with the East African Mounted Rifles.

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Naval Appointments
Preceded by
William Cadman
Captain of H.M.S. Vixen
21 May, 1908[1] – 1910
Succeeded by
Henry de B. Tupper

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 395a.