Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Chesney Wilson was a British Army officer and husband of the war correspondent Lady Sarah Wilson. As an Eton College student he assisted in thwarting Roderick Maclean's assassination attempt on Queen Victoria in 1882, before joining the Royal Horse Guards in 1887. Wilson was promoted quickly, and as a captain was appointed aide-de-camp to Robert Baden-Powell at the start of the Second Boer War, in which role he served through the Siege of Mafeking. He was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1901.
Wilson at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897
Lady Sarah Wilson's dugout where Wilson initially recuperated from peritonitis
Robert Baden-Powell's staff after the Siege of Mafeking. Wilson is in the top row, fifth from the left
Wilson (third from left) in the VIP seats on the Uganda Railway
Sarah Wilson (war correspondent)
Lady Sarah Wilson DStJ RRC became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Boer War.
1893 photograph of Lady Sarah by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett, whole-plate glass negative
Three soldiers talk with Sarah Wilson in Mafeking. She is seated by the door to her bomb shelter.
Lady Sarah Wilson during the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War
Sarah Wilson, circa 1899.
