Dennis B. Wilson (25 June 1921 – 28 June 2022) was a British poet known mainly for his writings as a soldier in
World War II
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Biography
Poems he wrote during the 1944
Normandy landings
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were published for the first time in 2012 by Kultura Press with the assistance of Tim Crook, a researcher at
Goldsmiths College
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who was working on a biography of Wilson's father, the writer and spy
Alexander Wilson.
His mother was Alexander Wilson's first wife, Gladys.
He had two siblings, and has four half-siblings through his
polygamous
Crimes
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father's further three marriages.
In 2018, he was depicted by the actor
Patrick Kennedy in the
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''. Also appearing in the series was his real-life niece, actress
in June 2021, and died on 28 June 2022, at the age of 101.