Lilias Margaret Wilson

   Another name for Lilias is Maggie.

  General Notes:

The Wilsons were a sept of the Gunn Clan which came from Norway.
The Tartan:- Black with several greens, orange stripe.
Clan Motto- "Peace or War"

Those of you about my age will have your own stories of the
Second World War from very different parts of the world. None of it was
pleasant.
On Friday night at 9.35 T.V.1 there is the 3rd part of a programme about
the air warfare over Britain in 1940. I was a fifteen year old at
school and studying for my matriculation examination, living in a
village St Mary Cray in Kent. Most of what you may see in this
programme would have been played out over my home.
I went to school and frequently spent some time during each day in the
air raid shelters trying to keep up the studies. When the holidays
started we were at home of course and often caught out fetching messages
from the shops etc as the sirens went. I lived close to Biggin Hill an
aerodrome very involved in this part of the war and watched the
dogfights and the planes shot down overhead. Some of those shots I
remember very well and have seen them previously in news clips both then
and more recently.
A year later I was going to dances at "The Daylight Inn" an English
pub only a short walk from where I lived and very popular with the
airmen from Biggin Hill and no doubt had a dance or two with some of
them, they were very young, very excited over their battles in the air
and it was very sad when we missed them at the dances but were a bit
afraid to ask.

My bit of the war with very mixed feelings.
----Best Wishes Maggie----

Lilias married Derek Ludgate Woodhead, son of Frederick Redvers Woodhead and Martha Magdalena Engelbrecht, on 11 Dec 1948 in Durban South Africa. (Derek Ludgate Woodhead was born on 7 Feb 1927 in Pretoria, South Africa ¹ and was christened on 3 Apr 1927 in Pretoria.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Golden Wedding, 11 Dec 1998, Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand.