Arthur Wilson

1911 - 2001  (89 years)

• Name	Arthur Wilson
  Birth	24 Nov 1911	Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Oct 2001	Sherborne, Dorset, England   [1]
  Person ID	I46	Durham-Jamiesons

  
  

  Family	Lilian Maud Collins,   b. 20 Jun 1911, Higham, Kent, England d. Aug 1990, Sherborne, Dorset, England (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	Mar 1940	Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Jocelyn Brenda Wilson
  Family ID	F15	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  During the Spanish Civil War, He and about 12 other Black Shirts and a Spanish Captain went to Tiger Bay, Cardiff and took over a ship belonging to General Franco which had been stopped from leaving by a board of Communist Dockyard workers. They removed the Communists (He was a Boxing Champion in Bethnal Green) and sailed it to Hamburg and spent a week in Germany, on their return they were arrested for Piracy. Charges were dropped however, Mosley had some powerful friends. After the war my Grandfather hid a Cossack family from the authorities saving them from certain death at the hands of Stalin. Despite his political leanings, he was an enigma because his longest and dearest friend was a very sweet, kind and generous Jewish lady, who we called 'Aunty Sheila'. He was arrested for egg and flouring a Labour Politician and some Paedophiles going into court, was asked to stand as a Conservative MP and in the 1980's he took down two muggers who tried to rob him. (ASJ)

  
  

• Sources

  [S24] Death Record, Oct 2001, v.67, p.186. Birth Date : 24 Nov 1911 Registration District : North Dorset Inferred County : Dorsett England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England [S23] Marriage Record, Jan-Feb-Mar 1940, v.1c, p.375. Registration District : Bethnal Green Inferred County : Middlesex England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005