Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Gordon Stanley Wilder
In memory of:
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
April 9, 1917
Military Service
142147
24
Army
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
20th Bn.
There was no mention of medals earned on Pte Wilders' service file.
Additional Information
August 25, 1892
Parry Sound, Ontario
August 4, 1915
Niagara Camp, Ontario
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.
Commemorated on Page 349 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
V. D. 24.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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