The Marlborough
Historical Society

     Wilfred was born the 28^th of January 1923 in Brockton, Massachusetts.  He was a graduate of Brockton High School and afterwards continued his schooling at the Lawrence Academy, Norwich University and the Culer Military Academy.  He was congressionally appointed to the Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1946.  He was immediately commissioned a 2^nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and married Jean Nicoll a few weeks after his graduation.  Together Jean and Wilfred would have one son.

     He was assigned to the 64^th Bombardment Squadron, 43^rd Bombardment Group.  He was serving as the Co-pilot on a B-29 Superfortress that left Davis Monthan Airfield in Tuscon, Arizona the 15^th of June 1947 in route to Hanscom Air Base in Bedford, Massachusetts.  After becoming disoriented in a storm and flying into Vermont, the B-29 crashed into Hawkes Mountain in Perkinsville Vermont killing all aboard.  Wilfred is buried in a group grave with those of his crew at the Long Island National Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York.  A cenotaph for him is located in Maplewood Cemetery in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

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