well as being the earliest and oldest recipient. His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London. He suffered from prostate cancer in later life, and died after a stroke. He was buried in Stowell, survived by his second wife and their son, and both of his sons from his first marriage. See also East African campaign (World War II) Italian conquest of British Somaliland List of solved missing person cases Footnotes References British VCs of World War 2 (John Laffin, 1997) Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) Roger T. Stearn, 'Wilson, Eric Charles Twelves (1912–2008)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2012) [accessed 5 Oct 2012] External links British Army Officers 1939−1945 Captain E.C. Wilson in The Art of War exhibition at the UK National Archives Imperial War Museum Interview 1912 births 2008 deaths Burials in Somerset People from Sandown People educated at Marlborough College Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst East Surrey Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War II British colonial governors and administrators in Africa British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross Somaliland Camel Corps officers King's African Rifles officers British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross Military history of British Somaliland during World War II Tanganyika (territory) people Missing in action of World War II British World War II prisoners of war Formerly missing people World War II prisoners of war held by Italy Military personnel from the Isle of Wight