• Caption: The Neil Wilson Memorial Garden at Park Hall, Oswestry.
  • Neil served for 5 years with his regiment, mostly with the Signals Platoon and ended his army days as a Lance Corporal with an exemplary record and a well deserved GSM for service in Northern Ireland. In fact, it was during a tour in there that he was injured in a bomb blast and as a result of this he wore a hearing aid. In the year 2000, the many injuries he suffered in the blast caught up with him and his wife Linda saved his life by giving one of her kidneys.  
  • Having met Linda at the 54 Club, Neil returned to Oswestry as a civilian where he first joined the Electricity Board, moving on to work as a builder in West Germany. He later became a postman, but gardening was his passion and in the year prior to his death, like many of us he was recalling his youth and made the effort to negotiate with the Rugby Club to begin work on the garden we now see completed by members of the IBB-IJLB Association.
  • Like many of us, Neil was proud of his beginnings as a Junior Leader, and in his later years he was proud too, to be the standard bearer in Oswestry on ceremonial occasions for the Royal Welch Fusiliers.