BORN BEVERLEY 19/02/1892. SON OF JAMES WILD (1840-1912) & MARY SANDERS (1847-1918), OF 8 ASH TREE GROVE, HOME CHURCH LANE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING. SON OF A RETIRED COAL MERCHANT. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND SEVEN SISTERS.
EMPLOYED AS AN ACCOUNTS CLERK FOR MR SCOTT, ACCOUNTANTS, HULL. FATALLY WOUNDED AT YPRES. THE 2ND LIFE GUARDS BATTALION DIARY RECORDS THAT THE HULL ACCOUNTANT WAS KILLED BY A SNIPER. DIED OF WOUNDS AT NO:2 FIELD AMBULANCE, ON 06/02/1915, 7,30PM.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 18TH FEBRUARY 1915. *
PHOTO FROM Hull Daily Mail 22 October 1914
First name:
LANGFORD
Regiment:
Military Number:
2877
Rank:
Trooper
Date Died
06/02/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
23
8 ASH TREE GROVE, HOME CHURCH LANE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
