The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H E Wildey

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Private Herbert Ewart WILDEY, G/26267, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action,  Flanders France, 31st July  1917.

Born Rochester, Kent, son of Daniel Ray Marian Wildey.

4th February 1905, St Mary, West Kensington, married Ada Saunders.

Children - Mildred Ada Wildey, born 12th May 1907, Willesden, Middlesex; *Doris Wildey, born October 1908, Acton, Middlesex; Gladys Eileen Wildey, born 27th June 1910, Willesden, Middlesex;

1911 Census - 26 West Ella Road, Harlesden, NW - Herbert Ewart Wildey, head, age 25, married, joiner, carpenter, born Rochester, Kent; Ada Wildey, wife, age 23, married 5 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Lane End, Buckinghamshire; Mildred Ada Wildey, daughter, age 3, born Willesden; *Doris Wildey, daughter, age 2, born Acton; Winnie Saunders, Sister in Law, age 14, single, laundry, worker, born Lane End, Buckinghamshire; Gladys Eileen Wildey, daughter, age 9 months, born Willesden. 

* died June Quarter, age 3, 1912, Willesden, Middlesex.

Children - Gilbert Ewart Wildey, born 1st April 1914, Harlesden, Middlesex.

Enlisted Willesden, Middlesex.  Resided Harlesden, Middlesex.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.