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- 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. (en)
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- (AUSGROUP), ABDACOM (1942)
- North-Western Area, RAAF (1942–43)
- RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor (1943)
- RAF Linton-on-Ouse(1943)
- RAF Wyton(1943)
- Western Area, RAAF (1945)
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- (—Cameron Hazlehurst) (en)
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- Lithgow, New South Wales (en)
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- Concord, New South Wales (en)
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- Wilson's ... tenacious pursuit [at the Air Court of Inquiry into the 1940 Canberra air disaster] of a theory that could not be proved appears consistent with Jack Graham's memory of him as 'a most peculiar bloke, [a] most erratic fellow...he was quite unpredictable'. Joe Hewitt, who knew Wilson well, described him as an introvert. 'He was,' Hewitt remembered, 'a violinist of some ability, and would often lose himself in playing a wealth of classical music.' But, as the Air Court demonstrated, he would not remain in his shell when circumstances permitted his forceful presence.[According to the wartime head of public relations for the RAAF] John Harrison ... when Wilson became a POW and senior British officer in Stalag Luft III, someone who had either 'served or suffered' under him remarked: 'God help the Germans.' (en)
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- (Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm: An Australian Tragedy, Canberra: ANU E Press, 2013, p.500.) (en)
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- 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. (en)
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- Douglas Wilson (RAAF officer) (en)
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- D. E. L. (Douglas) Wilson (en)
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