Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War II (1939-1945)

Date of Enlistment

07/06/1940

Date of Discharge

02/09/1943

Place of Enlistment

Paddington NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

16/11/1900

Place of Birth

Brisbane, Queensland

Address (at enlistment)

Murray Crescent, Manuka ACT

Occupation

Truck driver

Next of Kin

Lily Wilson (wife), Murray Crescent, Griffith ACT

Service Number

NX29209

Final Rank

Corporal

Final Unit

Australian Army Medical Corps Training Wing

Joe Wilson embarked from Sydney in December 1940 and arrived in Haifa, in modern-day Israel, on 31 January 1941. He transferred to the Australian Army Medical Corps Training Wing at the end of May 1941 and was involved in convoy work in Egypt with the 1st Australian Corps Ammunition Park over the next few months. Wilson was then promoted to Corporal and detached to the 2/43 Battalion and served with them at Tobruk and El Alamein. He returned to Australia in early 1943 and was discharged on 2 September 1943. Wilson died on 12 August 1984 and was buried in Woden Cemetery. The Canberra Times article of 1966 includes an image of Wilson at a Rats of Tobruk ceremony in Canberra.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 168 pounds, fair complexion, blue eyes, grey hair, hernia scar, Presbyterian.

WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
The Canberra Times - 11 April 1966, 14 August 1984
NAA RecordSearch - Series B883 (Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947)