Military service
Burial/memorial 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.
There was no mention of medals earned on Pte Wilders' service file.
Digital gallery of Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Maganetawan, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
From the New Liskeard (Temiskaming) Speaker for 17 May 1917.
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Stanley Wilder
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.
Digital gallery of
Private 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
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Maganetawan, Ontario
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From the New Liskeard (Temiskaming) Speaker for 17 May 1917.
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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.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 349 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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