Photo: Barney Rice
Original headstone
Soldaat
J.O. De Wilde
23.11.1878
5.12.1918
Gestorven
voor
Belgie
"Patria Memor"
The original headstone read:-
De Wilde
Jozef O
Soldaat
Vestingsart Rgt.? Antwerpen
Geboren te Gent
Den 23 November 1879
Stierf Voor Belgie
Den 5 December 1918
Joseph Oscar De Wilde was born on the 23rd August 1878 at Gent, Antwerpen the son of Maria Clementine De Wilde. He was married to Joanna Maria Josephina Van Wezembeck. Joseph was 1m 730 high and had enlisted on the 10th March 1899. Service number 5521.
He died in the Birtley Elisabethville hospital and is buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery.
Joseph Oscar De Wilde is remembered at Birtley on B127.11
