George & Caroline Wilson

George Wilson (1874 – 1937) was the youngest of the Colonel's children and described by his older sisters as "a bright and naughty boy". He was sent to prep school and subsequently to Harrow where he was good both at games and in his studies. However, since his older brothers Ben and Dan had joined the Colonel in the business, his father arranged for him go to Glasgow to join the firm of Graham and Co, a company which imported goods from India. The Grahams of Airthrey Castle were friends of the family: the children used to skate on the lake outside the castle, which is now part of the University of Stirling.

In the 1890s George was posted to Karachi for Grahams and spent about thirty years of his life in Burma and India. One of the men in George's chummery, a place where young, single Britons messed together, was Jack Humphrey, who worked for Sassoons.

Caroline Humphrey (1880-1963), Jack's sister, was the youngest of the seven children of Caroline and John Humphrey, who had a business based in Bombay. Caroline went to school in England as a boarder but, when she was seventeen, returned to join the rest of the family in Bombay some time around 1905. While visiting her brother Jack in Karachi she met George Wilson, who subsequently proposed to her. The family didn't approve of the marriage so Caroline was sent off on a trip to Hong Kong to stay with her brother Harold, and then on to Manila to stay with her sister Nel. After she returned to Bombay George and Caroline were married, on November 6th, 1906.

The leave which followed soon after included a walking tour of the Scottish highlands. In this photograph of George he is wearing a sprig of white heather, so the picture may have been taken then.