Thanks for your replys, those sites are really useful.
My problem is there are quite a few T or Thomas Wilson's, and I dont know his rank or regiment and am not very familar with army terms so is all a bit foreign to me.
I can see from the 1881 and 1891 censuses that he lived in London and was a painter. In the 1901 census his wife is listed as a widow. Family records I have say he died in the Boer War, but I don't know any more than that.
I see there are 2 T Wilson's listed on the Royal Artillery Memorial, London
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/cgi-bin/boerwarartillery.cgi, could he be one of these? I really have no idea about the ranks but presumably not the Sargent Major if he was a painter before the war??? Could he be the gunner, is there anyway to find out more about these people? I am guessing here really so any more suggestions would be great!
Thanks
Jenny