Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Frederick George Wilder was born on 2 December 1897, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Ashman Wilder, was 20 and his mother, Ellen Hannah Bowling, was 21. He had at least 1 son with Olive Lucretia Kelly. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 17, his occupation is listed as finisher. He died in June 1993, at the age of 95, and was buried in Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 