Name
Sidney George Wildman
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203492
Wiltshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 119 to 120.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Sidney George Wildman was born in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1897, son of George Alfred Wildman, a Brickyard Worker and Mary Jane Wildman (nee Gifford). One of five children Agnes (B 1893), Alfred (B 1895), Leonard (B 1901) and Ralph (B 1903).
1901 Census records Sidney aged 3, living with his parents, and three siblings in, Westfields, Higham Ferrers, Northants. The family had a lodger George Beetson, a Shoe Laster.
Between 1903 and 1911 the family moved from Higham Ferrers to Borehamwood, in Hertfordshire.
1911 Census records Sidney aged 13, at school, living with his parents and three brothers at, 32, Malden Road, Borehamwood, Herts. His father’s occupation is given as a Locomotive Driver in the Brickfields.
Sidney married Hilda Janet Selby of Hendon, Lon/Middx, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Eleanor Selby, in Hendon in 1914, they went on to have one daughter Doris Gladys Wildman in 1915.
Wartime Service
Sidney enlisted in London, posted to the Essex Regiment with the service number 5186, (his service number indicates he enlisted between June & July 1916, aged 18), he was later transferred to the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) with the service number 203492.
In September 1917, the 6th Battalion was amalgamated with the Wiltshire Yeomanry (now dismounted) to become the 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion.
He was killed in Action on 4, October 1917, aged 19. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
Hilda received a widow’s pension of 18/9, a week from 29 April 1918, her address was give as 58 Deerfield Cottages, West Hendon, NW. Hilda also received his effects of £2-2s-6d, Pay Owing and £5-10s-00d, War gratuity. Hilda Janet Wildman later remarried and Became Hilda Janet Champ living at 81 Dollis Road, Church End, Finchley, Lon/Middx. Hilda remarried in 1925, to George Robert Champ in Hendon.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
