Sapper Arthur Wilson

Arthur Wilson was born in 1896 in New South Wales, His father was a New South Wales government surveyor. Because of his father's employment, some of his early years were spent living in Bathurst. In order to have the benefit of a secondary education, he was brought to Sydney by his parents and attended the Fort Street School. He was awarded a bursary to Sydney University at the end of his final school year, mainly due to his prowess in mathematics. He never took up the bursary because with the outbreak of the First World War he, like many others, was keen to enlist in the Army. He did not enlist immediately, however. On his father's advice he joined the then Postmaster General's Department as a cadet engineer. His father was very concerned about what would become of him at the end of the war if he did not have employment to come home to when it was over. His father had seen the unfortunate fate of men who had served and returned from the Boer War.

His father's advice proved astute, as Arthur returned to the Postmaster General's Department after the war and remained there until his retirement in 1961 at the age of 65. He died in 1985 when hit by a train, while walking across a level crossing. It is though he may not have heard the train, due to the loss of hearing in one ear atrributed to he effects of mustard gas during the war.