page_title: Charles Burnett Wilson
section_title: Military service
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Burnett Wilson / Military service
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles B. Wilson, photograph by Menzies Dickson.
context_page_description: Charles Burnett “C.B.” Wilson was a British and Tahitian superintendent of the water works, fire chief under King Kalākaua, and Marshal of the Kingdom under Queen Liliʻuokalani. and father of John H. Wilson.
context_section_description: In 1866 Wilson joined the Honolulu Rifles, a militia unit. He was a Sergeant during the 1873 Barracks Revolt and was present in the standoff. He later joined the Royal Guard where he became one of a squad of personal bodyguards to King Kalākaua. During the Honolulu Courthouse Riot, an election riot by supporters of Queen Emma, who attacked the Legislature, Wilson rescued four representatives, three in a carriage by preventing rioters from overturning it, and catching one representative that was thrown out a courthouse window. On January 31, 1876 Wilson made First Lieutenant and Captain on March 16, 1877.
caption: Charles B. Wilson, photograph by Menzies Dickson
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