BORN HULL 1897. SON OF EDGAR CHILD (1862-1937) AND ELIZABETH ANN HEARN (1861-1914), OF BURLEY HOUSE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A STEVEDORE. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1914.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (RAMC). DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/11/1917, AGED 21. BURIED AT DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY. HE LEFT £110 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE ALSO LEFT HIS BROTHER ERIC, AND SISTERS, WINIFRED, MAJORIE AND NORA.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE RAMC MEMORIAL AT WENLOCK BARRACKS & ON THE SUTTON VILLAGE MEMORIAL.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, KENNETH CHILD WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 14/04/1918, AGED 19.
First name:
WILFRED
Military Number:
390526
Rank:
Private
Date Died
29/11/1917
Place died:
Dozinghem Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
21
BURLEY HOUSE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
