Flying Officer Dennis Paul Reginald WILD (1939)

81 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Born 12 June 1921 in Barnet, London
Died 10 February 1943, aged 21
Buried at Northwood Cemetery, London.

Dennis Wild was the son of Paul Arthur Eric Wild and Ida Mildred Kathleen, née Cook, of Northwood, Middlesex.

He was educated at Merchant Taylor’s School, and took a second in Classical Mods in 1941.

No. 81 OTU was formed in July 1942 at RAF Ashbourne, Derbyshire, to train night bomber crews with the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley.