Herbert Ward Wilson (29 September 1877 – 1 October 1955) was an Australian science lecturer and naturalist.
Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1915, he served at Gallipoli and in Egypt and France, being steadily promoted and rising to the rank of Major by the time of his demobilization in 1919.
He was awarded the Military Cross, the Belgian Croix de guerre and was appointed to the OBE.
[1] After the war Wilson married Myra Hester Smith in 1920.
He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, the Bird Observers Club, the Microscopical Society and the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, from the latter of which he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1943.