Archibald Wilson

Who is Archibald Wilson?

Air Marshal Archibald Oliver Garfield Wilson ICD OBE DFC, commonly Archie Wilson, was a Rhodesian fighter pilot who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He went on to become a senior commander and then Air Marshall in the Rhodesian Air Force in the 1960s and early 1970s. After retirement, he served two terms in the Rhodesian House of Assembly. He later served in the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian Parliament Upper House in 1979 and then in the Zimbabwe Parliament in 1980. He held four cabinet portfolios. He resigned in 1982 to emigrate, with his wife Lorna, to Australia's Gold Coast in 1982. He became a citizen of Australia in 1988.