BORN HULL 1889. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM & BETSY ANN MARTIN, AT “LLANBERIS HOUSE”, COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS). HIS SISTERS WERE ANN & CLARA.
EDUCATED AT HULL HYMERS COLLEGE. EMPLOYED AS A BANK CLERK.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 9TH KING’S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1917, AGED 28.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM. HE ALSO LEFT £240 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, WHO WAS A COMPANY SECRETARY, FOR A LIMITED COMPANY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ON HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL AND ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST JOHNS CHURCH, NEWLANDS, HULL.
BURIED AT TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “OF HULL “SPLENDID YOU PASSED. THE GREAT SURRENDER MADE”
First name:
WILLIAM WILDE
Military Number:
19661
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
09/04/1917
Place died:
TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE
Age:
28
LLANBERIS HOUSE, COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
