Ernest Albert Wilde

Warrant Officer Class 2

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Hans and Ellen Mary Wilde; husband of Dorothy Wilde, of Palmerston North.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

" In connection with the death of a soldier - Ernest Albert Wilde, it appears that he went into the bush on Saturday and set a booby trap for wild pigs. The trap was arranged with a hand grenade and sprung by electric contact from a torch battery. On Sunday it is presumed that while the trap was being shifted the grenade exploded and Wilde was killed."

GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21779, 31 JULY 1945, PAGE 4

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Casualty

Service Number:

519801

Name:

Ernest Albert Wilde

Rank:

Warrant Officer Class 2

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

New Zealand Military Forces

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Accidentally Killed

Date of Death:

29 July 1945

Day of Death:

Sunday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Palmerston North (Kelvin Grove) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

23. H. 8.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand