D. E. L. (Douglas) Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | "Del" [1] |
| Born | 1 December 1898 Lithgow, New South Wales |
| Died | 1 August 1950 (aged 51) Concord, New South Wales |
| Buried | Lithgow |
| Allegiance | Australia |
| Service/ | Australian Army (1916–23) Royal Australian Air Force (1923–46) |
| Years of service | 1916–1946 |
| Rank | Group Captain |
| Commands held | Western Area, RAAF (1945) RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor (1943) RAF Linton-on-Ouse (1943) RAF Wyton (1943) AUSGROUP, ABDACOM (1942) North-Western Area, RAAF (1942–43) |
| Awards | War Cross (Czechoslovakia) |
Group Captain Douglas Ernest Lancelot "Del" Wilson (1 December 1898 – 2 August 1950) was a senior officer of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II.
During early 1942, as an acting Air Commodore, Wilson was part of the short-lived Allied supreme command for South East Asia and the South West Pacific, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM). Afterwards, he was attached to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in North West Europe, and spent more than a year as a prisoner of war (POW) in Nazi Germany.
- ^ Cameron Hazlehurst, 2013, Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm: An Australian Tragedy, ANU E Press, p. 474.