Archibald Wilson Military person

Air Marshal Archibald Oliver Garfield Wilson ICD OBE DFC (USA) (May 1921 – 4 July 2014), commonly Archie Wilson, was a Rhodesian fighter pilot who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He went on to become a senior commander and then Air Marshall in the Rhodesian Air Force in the 1960s and early 1970s. After retirement, he served two terms in the Rhodesian House of Assembly. He later served in the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian Parliament Upper House in 1979 and then in the Zimbabwe Parliament in 1980. He held four cabinet portfolios. He resigned in 1982 to emigrate, with his wife Lorna, to Australia's Gold Coast in 1982. He became a citizen of Australia in 1988.

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allegiance23px Rhodesia
award
Order of the British Empire
Independence Commemorative Decoration
military operations
World War II
military branch
Rhodesian Air Force
service start1939
service end1973

Archibald Wilson on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/aircrewaca/aih/aih116-a-wilson.pdf
  2. http://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/aircrewaca/profiles/pr116-a-wilson.htm
  3. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/archie-his-fighter-planes-and-his-gift-to-us-all-20121121-29qgs.html#ixzz2CtpGK7kP
  4. http://www.rhodesianforces.org/RhodesianAirForce.htm#AOC