Arnold Wilson

| native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Sir Arnold Wilson.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Sir Arnold Wilson | birth_date = | death_date = | birth_place = United Kingdom | death_place = Near Eringhem, France | placeofburial = | nickname = | birth_name = | father = James Wilson | mother = | spouse = | relatives = Mona Wilson (half-sister)
Sir Steuart Wilson (brother) | education = Clifton College | party = Conservative | office = Member of Parliament for Hitchin | term_start = 1933 | term_end = 1940 | predecessor = Viscount Knebworth | successor = Seymour Berry | module = | branch =

| serviceyears = 1903–1921 (Army)
1939–1940 (Air Force) | rank = Lieutenant colonel (Army)
Pilot officer (Air Force) | servicenumber = | unit = 32nd Sikh Pioneers
No. 37 Squadron RAF | commands = | battles = * First World War ** Middle Eastern theatre * Iraqi revolt of 1920
* Second World War ** Western Front *** French and Low Countries campaign **** Battle of France ***** Battle of Dunkirk

| battles_label = | awards = DSO | laterwork = | signature = }} }}

Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (18 July 1884 – 31 May 1940) was a British soldier, colonial administrator, Conservative politician, writer and editor. Wilson served under Percy Cox, the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia (Mandatory Iraq) during and after First World War, including an Iraqi revolt in 1920. Wilson was the first Member of Parliament to die in action in the Second World War. He was killed while serving as an aircrew member at the advanced age of 55.

In the 1930s, Wilson drew controversy for expressing support for Francisco Franco and sympathy for Nazi Germany, albeit he privately expressed disgust after visiting a concentration camp in 1936. During the war, he volunteered to fight, saying "I have no desire to shelter myself and live in safety behind the ramparts of the bodies of millions of our young men." Provided by Wikipedia
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