Nick Wilder's service behind enemy lines: a story told at la

Nick Wilder's service behind enemy lines: a story told at last


Nick Wilder's service behind enemy lines: a story told at last
21 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Nick Wilder pictured at practice during his overseas war service, May 1942. Photo / Supplied
Taupo & Turangi Weekender
By: NZME
Andrew Wilder feels he only finally got to know his father many years after his death.
Nick Wilder, of Wallingford, Waipukurau, died in 1970, aged 56. Andrew was just 18 at the time and, while he knew his father had served overseas in World War II, he knew little more.
"The war was something unspoken," Andrew Wilder said.
"He never told us what he'd done."
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"In hindsight, the way he related back to those conditions ... they had made an impact on him."

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