Name
Anthony Frederick Wilding
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Marines
Armoured Car Div.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-DES-BERCEAUX MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
II. D. 37.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath
Pre War
Anthony Wilding, the son of Mr F Wilding, was born in New Zealand. He came to England and was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. Wimbledon Champion.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of the war he joined the Royal Marines and was gazetted a second lieutenant in early October 1914. The temporarily the Intelligence Corps and then, at the end of October he joined the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division in the battlefields of northern France. He was killed in action during the Battle of Aubers Ridge at Neuve-Chapelle, France when a shell exploded on the roof of the dug-out he was sheltering in.
Additional Information
Former Wimbledon Tennis Champion, 1907 (Doubles), 1908 (Doubles), 1910 (Singles & Doubles), 1911 (Singles), 1912 (Singles) & 1913 (Singles). Educated New Zealand; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. Called to the English Bar, Inner Temple, 1906; qualified Barrister and Solicitor of Supreme Court of New Zealand, 1909. A member of The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Queen's. Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
