Leslie Wilson (politician)
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Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, was a British Royal Marines officer, Conservative politician, and colonial governor. He served as Governor of Bombay from 1923 to 1926 and as Governor of Queensland from 1932 t
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Sir Leslie and Lady Wilson, Queensland c.1933; he is wearing the full dress uniform of a member of HM Privy Council.
Leslie Wilson in 1941
Sunrise at the Wilson Point
Harry Rawson
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Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, was a Royal Navy officer. He is chiefly remembered for overseeing the Benin Expedition of 1897, a British punitive expedition against the Kingdom of Benin. Rawson'
Leslie Wilson (politician)
…Distinguished Service Order. In 1901 he achieved the rank of captain. From 1903 to 1909, Wilson served as aide-de-camp to the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Harry Rawson. During World War I, Wilson commanded Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Division with the rank of temporary lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines…
Portrait of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, Sydney, c. 1902
Portrait of Sir Harry Rawson, governor of New South Wales
Rawson caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1901