The first of two brothers to become casualties, Wilfred had grown up around Filey (the family lived at Bohemia, 6 Mitford St.), although he had spent a lot of time at a Public School in Bedfordshire, where he was well known for playing cricket in both the Bedford County XI, and the Public Schools XI.  In 1912 he saved a Bedford County match by scoring 108 runs, gaining him a reputation as an outstanding athlete and a sports personality for the future.

          Within the first month of the war he enlisted into the 1^st Battalion, Honorable Artillery Company, effectively an ‘elite’ unit where many of its members would become officers but died in the second action of Givenchy ‘gallantly and for his country’ (as his officer wrote home to his mother).  He is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial.