El Teb
As a result of being appointed to command the torpedo boat depot ship HMS Hecla, Wilson became involved in both the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War in 1884. As a captain in the Naval Brigade, during the Sudan Campaign the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 29 February 1884, at the Battle of El Teb, Captain Wilson of HMS Hecla attached himself, during the advance, to the right half-battery, Naval Brigade, in place of a lieutenant who was mortally wounded. As the troops closed on the enemy battery, the Arabs charged out on the detachment which was dragging one of the guns, whereupon Captain Wilson sprang to the front and engaged in single combat with some of the enemy, and so protected the detachment until men of the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, came to his assistance.
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