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Military service
Service number:
142147
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
August 25, 1892
Parry Sound, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 4, 1915
Niagara Camp, Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. D. 24.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilder, of Haileybury, Ontario. He was single and listed his civilian occupation as prospector. Sailed from Halifax to England on the Empress of Britain on 23 April 1916, joining the 76th Battalion. He transferred to the 20th Battalion on 20 June 1916. He remained with that Battalion until his death.
Pte Wilder is commemorated on a memorial in Magnetawan, Ontario having made the supreme sacrifice.
Additional citations
There was no mention of medals earned on Pte Wilders' service file.
Digital gallery of Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
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Photo of GORDON STANLEY WILDER
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Commemorative Plaque
Maganetawan, Ontario -
Newspaper Clipping
From the New Liskeard (Temiskaming) Speaker for 17 May 1917. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Group photo
Pte.Wilder war medal was restored and donated back to the town of Parry Sound where Pte. G.S. Wilder was from. The medal was restored by Cpl Ryan Gingras serving regular infantry soldier and veteran of Afghanistan. Mr. Dave Thomson organized the medals safe return home from another seller on ebay, and the medal was paid for and donated by Kellie Hooper of Parry Sound, the picture is of a parade held to mark remembrance of Pte. Wilder and soldiers of the great war in Parry Sound the day the medal was donated back to his home town. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GORDON STANLEY WILDER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 349 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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