Basic Details
Surname
Wilder
Forenames
George Percy
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
267074
Notes
the Roll lists his address as 10 Clifton Avenue.

(CWGC records that Private George Percy Wilder, regimental number 267074, died aged 38 on 4/7/1918 serving in 'D' Company, 1st/9th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and is buried in grave XI.G.11 at Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery in Iraq. They record him as the son of Alice Wilder of 10 Clifton Avenue, Peterborough and the late George Wilder.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died in Mesopotamia and that his mother Alice was his legatee. His address for Probate was 202 Cromwell Road, Peterborough; his mother administered his estate. On the 1911 census he had been living with his parents George and Alice at Three Tuns Inn, 7 Westwood Row, Westwood Street, Peterborough.
George Wilder is commemorated on a stone on his parents' grave in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see WMR ref 70130. That inscription states that he was their only son, that he had been born on 11/6/1880, and that he died from illness on 4/7/1918 at 23rd Stationary Hospital in Baghdad).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Middlesex Regiment
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
1/9th
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Iraq
Town of death
Baghdad
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1918
Month of death
July
Day of death
4
Manner of death as stated
Died at 23rd Stationary Hospital Baghdad
Manner of death reference
Other
Personal Details
Address
10 CLIFTON AVENUE
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial