Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Wilson was killed when Avro Lancaster III ED449 VN-T of 50 Squadron was lost on a mission to Essen. The Lancaster was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter, and crashed on the banks of the River Maas, near Venray, the Netherlands, with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 74
Also killed in the same crash was Sgt. Ronald Heslop
