Dwight Wilson (veteran)

Percy "Dwight" Wilson (February 26, 1901 – May 9, 2007) was the second-last surviving Canadian veteran of the First World War.

When asked about his actual age, he told the recruiting officer 16, which was good enough for the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

On the two-week voyage crossing the North Atlantic to England, he entertained the other troops on the RMS Grampian liner by singing.

Wilson lived at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the Veterans Residence in Toronto for the last year of his life.

His death left John Babcock, who lived in Spokane, Washington, United States, as the only surviving Canadian veteran of the First World War.