He was capped alongside club-mate, Bob McColl in a team that also included seven from Ibrox. Scotland would win 5-2, Wilson scoring the second and the third and on that basis he might have expected further selection. But it never happened, the explanation frustrating but simple. From the next game and for twelve caps over the decade to follow Hearts Bobby Walker became the shoe-in for what might have otherwise been Davie Wilson's position. And whilst he for a couple of years again scored freely as Queen's Park re-joined the League and moved into the third Hampden, even there scoring the only goal of the first game, he must have seen writing on the longer-term wall.

Thus he finally stepped back still in his mid-twenties, living with his parents until service in the Seaforth Highlanders in The Great War whilst also in 1914 marrying. He bride was Catherine Turner from Troon. They were to have a single daughter in what was to be a little over just a decade of marriage for in 1926 he was found dead in what looks to have been his Central Glasgow office. He had suffered a fatal heart-attack at just forty-six and would be buried in Craigton Cemetery.