Air Marshal Archibald Oliver Garfield Wilson ICD OBE DFC (USA) (28 May 1921 – 4 July 2014), commonly Archie Wilson, was a Rhodesian fighter pilot who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He went on to become a senior commander and then Air Marshal in the Rhodesian Air Force in the 1960s and early 1970s. After retirement, he served two terms in the Rhodesian House of Assembly, in the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian Parliament in 1979, and then in the Zimbabwe Parliament in 1981–1982. He held several cabinet portfolios prior to the Internal Settlement. He resigned in 1982 to emigrate, with his wife Lorna, to Australia's Gold Coast in 1982. He became a citizen of Australia in 1988.
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1 May 1921 Bulawayo, Rhodesia
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Died |
4 July 2014 (aged 93) Pinjarra Hills, Queensland, Australia
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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