Born in St Chad's parish, Shrewsbury.
Enlisted at Shrewsbury on the 8th of December 1854.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer. (He was shown as a "groom" at the time of his death.)
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855.
Sent to the General Depot at Scutari on the 25th of August 1855.
He was shown on a nominal roll of men of the Regiment made out at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, on the 9th of November 1855 as being On Duty there from the 27th of August.
To the Depot at York when the Regiment to Canada, 11th of September 1866.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 1st of December 1866.
Conduct: "Indifferent". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
To live in Shrewsbury after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
On the 5th of November 1895, he, together with just over 100 veterans of the campaigns up to and including the Ashanti War of 1874-8, were invited to an Assembly and Banquet at Shrewsbury, and from the Market Square marched to the Music Hall.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
The 1881 Census Return shows him as being an Inmate of the Atcham Union Workhouse, Berrington, Shropshire, when he was shown as being a Groom (Domestic Servant), aged 41 [sic], born at Shrewsbury
[Eds: The 1901 Census shows Wilding as aged 70, a "Pensioner 13th Hussars".]
Died aged on the 27th of January 1902 in the Workhouse at Atcham, near Shrewsbury, Salop. According to the records, he was 72 years old.
His obituary notice in the "Shrewsbury Chronicle" for the 30th of January 1902, states that he died at "Cross Keys House, near Oswestry, late of St. Chad's parish, aged 70 years."
He was buried in Plot No. 112. 4. H in the General Cemetery at Shrewsbury.
It is said that he was given a private funeral "from monies he saved from his pension." However, it would appear that although he had saved money from his pension for a "decent" burial the Workhouse Master had appropriated the money and he was buried in a common grave.
(See photograph of his gravesite in the 13th Hussar file, the mound in the centre of the picture marking his grave.)