Lieutenant-Colonel D.R. Wilson
2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
7th Battalion, Green Howards
2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers

He has throughout combined a high sense of duty with a humane understanding of the many factors affecting the morale of the soldier, and his work has been of a constantly high standard.

(O.B.E. citation, 1 Jan 1957)

Born on 15 January 1912 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, Douglas Richard Wilson attended Radley College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst before being commissioned into the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1932. His father Colonel Richard Henry George Wilson (1874–1944) had commanded the 8th, 1st, and 1/5th Battalions during the First World War. Following overseas service with the 1st Battalion in Hong Kong and India in the 1930s, the younger Wilson was attached the headquarters staff of the 9th Infantry Brigade during the battle of France.

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