Leading Seaman Frank Derby Wild
Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
London,
02/08/1918

Husband of Mrs. J. D. Wild, of The Haven, South Side, St. Sampson's, Guernsey

Died, aged 33 years.

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1st Royal Marine Bn. (Nelson Bn. attached 1st Royal Marine Bn.)
Death Date: 2 Aug 1918
Died whilst POW in Reserve Hospital III at Hamburg from Cardiac Paralysis & Pneumonia
Hamburg Cemetery, Ohlsdorf, Germany (Germany 2)

Service History

Enlisted 3/6/15 ; Draft for BEF 16/12/16, joined Nelson Bn. 9/1/17-8/3/17 Synovitis right knee, rejoined Nelson Bn. 2/5/17-24/5/17 VD Syphilis, rejoined Nelson Bn. 2/9/17, joined 7th Entrenching Bn. 22/2/18, detached to 1st RM Bn. 14/3/18-24/3/18 missing, POW.
Notes: CWGC has no record of attachment to 1st Royal Marine Bn. ; A Porter ; b.4/1/1885 ; Next-of-Kin & home address: Wife, Mrs. Louisa Derby Wild, 26 Kinglake St., Old Kent Rd., Bermondsey, London SE, later of: Les Monts, Bordeaux Vale, Guernsey, Channel Islands ; Mother, Mrs. S.A. Wild, 83 Spa Rd., Bermondsey, London SE16.
Husband of Mrs. J.D. Wild, of the Haven, South Side, St. Sampson's, Guernsey.

ADM/171 = V.B. issued to Widow.