Lieutenant-Colonel F. Stuart Wilder
Royal Regiment of Canada

I consider this an extremely bad case, and there appears to be good ground for thinking a prosecution for perjury might be successful … I consider Mr. Wilder to be a clever, calculating and consummate liar. He has deliberately lied in as brazen a manner as I have ever come across.

—Sir Reginald Sharpe, Divorce Court Commissioner

(Evening Standard, 25 May 1955, 10)

Born on 23 May 1910 in Kingston, Ontario, Franklin Stuart Wilder was a Queen’s University graduate, science teacher, and chemist. In 1940, he was appointed to head gas warfare training on the general staff of National Defence Headquarters. Overseas Wilder commanded No. 6 Wing, Canadian Training School until appointed to succeed Lieutenant-Colonel F.L. Nicholls of the Royal Regiment of Canada in August 1943.

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