[3] During a visit in Austria in 1957 he was awarded with one of the highest honours of Austrian Scouting the Silbernen Steinbock Silver Capricorn (on red-white-red ribbon).

[citation needed] At the age of 52, Wilson took leave from his WOSM bureau position during World War II, to help select and train candidates for the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

A key element of Hitler’s nuclear programme was the Norsk Hydro plant in Nazi-occupied Norway, which produced “heavy water”.

[1][5] After a failed attempts to destroy the facility by parachute troops and aerial bombing, ten SOE operatives trained by Wilson were deployed.

They successfully parachuted into Norway, evaded capture, scaled a 600ft ice-bound cliff to gain access to the plant, and destroyed the heavy apparatus.