Picture No | 10698371 |
Date | 1908 |
Description | Anthony Wilding on a motorcycle tour of the UK |
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Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand-born tennis player and Wimbledon champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. Wilding was also a keen motorist and motorcyclist and is pictured here on a motorcycle during a tour of the UK from John O'Groats to Land's End in 1908. Wilding died near Neuve Chapelle, France on 9 May 1915 while fighting in the Battle of Aubers Ridge.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in a book, Captain Anthony Wilding by A. Wallis Myers, 1916 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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