1st Battalion
Killed In Action
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Willie Wilson (SN 351) was born in Ballarat but enlisted in Sydney on 3rd August 1914. He was 22 years old, single, and a labourer when he joined the 1st Infantry Battalion. On August 8th 1915 he died of wounds caused by a Turkish home-made bomb. He was buried at Brown's Dip but was later reinterred at Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Norman W. Wilson.
