Knyvet Wilson, v.c., died at Beech Cottage, Swaffham, Norfolk, on May 25, aged 79. In 1911 he had, retired after 56 years' service, but on the outbreak of the war he gave his advice at the Admiralty, and he continued to the end of the struggle. Arthur Knyvet Wilson entered the Navy in 1855, and served as a midshipman in the Algiers during the Crimean War. In 1856, while still a midshipman, he was appointed to the Raleigh, flying the broad pennant of Commodore Sir Henry Keppel, the hero of the Fatshan Creek. Wilson went out in the Raleigh to China, but as the ship was wrecked and lost early in the following year he was appointed to the Calcutta, the famous nursery of future flag officers, then flying the flag of Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Commander-in-Chief. China Station. He took part in the capture of Canton in December, 1857, and in the destruction of the Peiho forte in May, 1858, receiving the Chinese medal with two clasps. In 1866 he attended a gunnery course at Whale Island, and in the following year he was again appointed as an additional lieutenant to the flagship of the China Station, and his services were lent for a time to the Japanese Government as an instructor to the youthful Navy of Japan. Subsequently he filled many appointments afloat and ashore up to that of First Sea Lord at the Admiralty. He very gallantly won his V.C. at the battle of Fi Teb in the Egyptian campaign.
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