BORN HULL 1893. ELDEST SON OF CHARLES (1861-1939) & AUGUSTA HOGGARD (1869-1959), OF 37 BLAYDES STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, CYRIL THEODORE HOGGARD (1900-1941). BEFORE THE WAR, WILFRED WORKED AS A GROCER’S ASSISTANT FOR THE HULL CO-OPERATIVE STORE.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, IN JANUARY 1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HIS BROTHER CYRIL JOINED THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WILFRED WAS ONE OF THREE MEN KILLED WHEN A SHELL HIT THEIR DUGOUT, ON 19/12/1916. HE WAS AGED 23.
“HE WAS KEEN AND TRUSTWORTHY SOLDIER.” HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 10TH JANUARY 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY, ESTREE-CAUCHY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “LOVE’S SACRIFICE FOR LIBERTY”
