Arquivo PR088 - George Wilkinson fonds

George Wilkinson was born Feb. 25, 1918 in Esquimalt, BC. He enlisted in the army in 1935, beginning his military career as a private in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, and eventually became a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Provost Corps, with peacekeeping tours in Cyprus and the Middle East. His military career ended in 1967 and he became a security officer for the Federal Government, eventually becoming security director before retiring in 1976. He married Isobel Cockburn and they had 2 children, Diane (b. 1947) and Patrick (b. 1954). Isobel was a stenographer with DND and other Federal agencies.