Bevil Wilson

Major-General Bevil Thomson Wilson CB, DSO (12 December 1885 – 30 October 1975) was a British Army officer.

Born in Canada as the son of Alexander Wilson and Mary Louise Rhynold-Barker,[1] Wilson was, after being educated at Clifton College and then the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, commissioned into the Royal Engineers of the British Army on 12 August 1905.

[2] The early years of his military career were spent in India and later with the Egyptian Army.

[5] In August 1941 he presided over the court-martial of Josef Jakobs at the Duke of York's Headquarters in Chelsea.

[1] In June 1918, he married Florence Erica Starkey; they had a son (Lieutenant-General Sir James Wilson)[6] and a daughter.