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About Gordon Chesney Wilson
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Chesney Wilson was a British Army officer and husband of the war correspondent Lady Sarah Wilson. As an Eton College student he assisted in thwarting Roderick Maclean's assassination attempt on Queen Victoria in 1882, before joining the Royal Horse Guards in 1887. Wilson was promoted quickly, and as a captain was appointed aide-de-camp to Robert Baden-Powell at the start of the Second Boer War, in which role he served through the Siege of Mafeking. He was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1901.
Everything about Gordon Chesney Wilson →- Occupation
- military officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- August 3, 1865
- Died
- November 6, 1914