FRANK WILLIAM WILDING

Image from 1918 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper

Born: 1891, Earl Soham, Suffolk.

Died: 12th January 1918; KiA.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 290058

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 11th Battalion.

Formerly 1449, Suffolk Regiment.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Grave Reference:

II.A.16.

Croisilles British Cemetery,

Pas de Calais,

France.

CENSUS

1901   9, Woodhouse Street, Ipswich.

Frank was 9 years old and living with his parents & sisters.

Robert Wilding, 32, a Sewing Machine Agent, born Earl Soham, Suffolk.

Rosa Wilding (nee Gooderham), 31, born Stowmarket, Suffolk.

Eva Beatrice Wilding, 5, born Earl Soham.

Elsie Mabel Wilding, 3, born Stowmarket.

1911   4, Chevalier Street, Ipswich.

Frank was 19 years old a Baker. He was living with his parents & sisters.

Robert, 42, a Sewing Machine Agent.

Rosa, 40.

Eva, 15, a General Domestic Servant.

Elsie, 12.

In 1916, Frank married, Hilda Emily Hulyer, born 1893, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. They had 1 daughter, Vera Marjorie T. Wilding, born June 1917, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Hilda E. Wilding – widow.

Frank is also remembered on St.Matthew’s Church Memorial Ipswich.

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