The Northerner, Vol. XIX, no. 1, December, 1918, p.6. reports:
"Lieutenant Harry Wild, M.C., N.F., attached Lincolnshire Regiment, younger son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wild, Camp Till, Maryport, and formerly of Appleby, was killed in action on the 24th August. Lieutenant Wild, who was 24 years of age, was educated at Barnard Castle County School, and Armstrong College, Newcastle. When war broke out he was serving his articles as a mining engineer with the Whitehaven Colliery Company, and soon afterwards obtained his commission. As a mining engineer he was attached to an R.E. Tunnelling Company, with which he did good service and gained the M.C. Contracting trench fever, he was eight months at home. Three months ago he returned to the Front and served with the Lincolnshire Regiment."
Harry Wild is remembered in Newcastle on NUT063 and at Barnard Castle School B135.20
