Edward Findlater WILSON
Born 26 September 1887 in Goulbourn, New South Wales, Australia [16]
Son of Edward WILSON and Ann FINDLATER [15]
Farmer in Dudawa, East Arrino [19]
He was in Arrino by 1910 and for at least the years 1914-1926 farmed in partnership with his brother Henry as "Wilson Bros" [6] [19]
Their 1913 crop averaged 18 bushels per acre and in 1914 they grew just over 500 acres of crop [9: 13-Feb-914] [10: 19-Jun-1914]
Member of the Arrino-Dudawa branch of the Farmers & Settlers Association - was Secretary 1914-1916 [81: 15-Feb-1914, 16-Jan-1916]
Prior to serving during the First World War he was working as a Clerk and living on Devon Road in the Perth suburb of Claremont [30]
He was accepted for service in the Australian Imperial Force on 8 March 1916 and enlisted in Perth on 16 March 1916 [30: item 1997673]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 5 inches tall, weight 115 pounds and had brown hair, grey-blue eyes and a ruddy complexion [30]
After brief training he was appointed on 13 July 1916 to the 19th Reinforcements of the 10th Light Horse Regiment [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on the R.M.S. Mongolia for active service abroad on 17 July 1916 [30]
Private 2835 until being promoted to Corporal on 2 June 1918 and then to Sergeant on 4 September 1918 [30]
For most of his service he was in the Supply Section of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade in Egypt [30]
He was hospitalised for septic sores to his hands in mid 1917 [30]
After the war, and before returning to Australia, he was granted a month of leave in Egypt and another month in England [30]
Embarked from England on the H.M.T. Somali and disembarked in Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 July 1919 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 22 August 1919; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Resumed farming in Dudawa, East Arrino, in partnership with his brother Henry until about 1926 and then on his own [6] [19]
Married Eunice Lottie GOOD on 30 December 1919 at Saint George's Church in Wagin [39: 5-Jan-1920]
Owner of a Ford car or truck licensed with the Mingenew Road Board and containing numberplate MI-107 in 1926-27 and 1927-28 [325]
Inaugural Committee Member of the Three Springs-Arrino Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers' League in 1932 [5: 12-Aug-1932]
In October 1933 sold through Westralian Farmers Ltd seven bales of wool at 15¼d. per pound [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Purchased a new Sunshine harvester in 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
In December 1935 sold eleven bales of wool for 17d. per pound through Westralian Farmers Ltd at a wool sale in Perth [5: 20-Dec-1935]
Committee Member of the Three Springs Agricultural Society in 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
Sold 74 shorn wethers (59 at 13/4, 15 at 9/10) through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
In 1937 expressed his appreciation to the Three Springs Road Board for the work they did on the South Dudawa Road [5: 22-Jan-1937]
He was among local farmers who hired through the Three Springs Road Board a boring plant to bore for water in 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
The boring plant struck water on his farm at a depth of 86 feet, which produced a supply of 1,400 gallons of water per day [5: 23-Apr-1937]
Private W71883 in Arrino's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Later retired from farming and shifted to Port Denison [24]
Passed away at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs at the age of 88 years [24]
Died 1 May 1976; buried at Three Springs General Cemetery in Three Springs, Western Australia (Methodist, Plot 45) [24]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Edward Findlater Wilson' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 16 August 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/edward-findlater-wilson [reference list] |
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