A telegram received from Tientsin by Messrs. Macbeth, Gray & Ca. announces the death in that city yesterday morning of Mr. John Wilson, representative of the firm of Gagniere Ca, cloth merchants of Golden Square, London, the cause of death being pneumonia.
Mr. Wilson was well known to a number of Shanghai residents, and had many friends among the Scottish community, with whom he was exceedingly popular. He had been travelling to India and the Far East in the interests of his firm since 1919. He was in Shanghai about a week ago, and while here attended with several personal friends a party given to celebrate his 57th birthday. He was then in the best of health, and was the life of the company assembled in his honour.
Mr. Wilson was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. At the commencement of the Great "War he joined up with the Ayrshire Yeomanry, and served throughout the campaign in France, Gallipoli, and Palestine, among his awards being the D.S.O. and the Croix de Guerre. He happened to be in Tokyo at the time of the great earthquake in September 1923, and for a week was unable to get news through to his friends that he was safe.
.Mr. Wilson is survived by two sisters resident in Scotland.
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