The UK’s Security Service, MI5, have taken the rare step of responding to requests for any information on Alexander Wilson in their archives. This followed a letter sent by Wilson biographer, Professor Tim Crook, to the Director-General of the Service on the invitation of Home Office Minister Ben Wallace. MI5 say: Although it is longstanding…
Month: June 2019
The 75 year commemoration of D-Day brings focus on Dennis Wilson’s WWII War Poetry
Alexander Wilson’s second son, Dennis B Wilson was an officer in the Black Watch during the bloody Normandy campaign after D-Day during the Second World War. He received life-changing injuries from blasts of artillery shrapnel on 1st July 1944 and left the army with the rank of honorary Captain. Dennis is an accomplished and highly…
Alexander Wilson - Author, Adventurer and Spy 