Albert died at the age of 13 and was buried on 25 August 1883. He lived in Hand Court, St Cuthbert's, Bedford. A report of the circumstances of his death appeared in the Northampton Mercury on Saturday 25 August 1883. The report reads:
"BEDFORD
THREE BOYS DROWNED. - On Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, three lads, about 13 years of age, named Owen Whiting, The Grove; Albert Edward Wildman, Hand-Court: and Harry William Mobbs, Little Grove-place went with two other boys of the same age to have a "lark" on the two rafts witch lie upon the water in the ballast holes near the station of the London and North-Western Railway. These boys and a lad named Mace got from the larger of the two rafts into the smaller, and, as it was unsteady, they became frightened, and moved about, so that the raft overbalanced. Mace clung to it, and was saved; the others were drowned, and their bodies were recovered the same night, two having been brought out by a man called Emery Smith, of Patteshall-Street and the third by means of a drag. – At the inquest, before Dr. Prior on Thursday afternoon, the jury found in each case a verdict of "Accidental death". – The Coroner and jury warmly commended Smith for his gallant conduct in diving into the water."
Albert died at the age of 13 and was buried on 25 August 1883. He lived in Hand Court, St Cuthbert's, Bedford. A report of the circumstances of his death appeared in the Northampton Mercury on Saturday 25 August 1883. The report reads:
"BEDFORD
THREE BOYS DROWNED. - On Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, three lads, about 13 years of age, named Owen Whiting, The Grove; Albert Edward Wildman, Hand-Court: and Harry William Mobbs, Little Grove-place went with two other boys of the same age to have a "lark" on the two rafts witch lie upon the water in the ballast holes near the station of the London and North-Western Railway. These boys and a lad named Mace got from the larger of the two rafts into the smaller, and, as it was unsteady, they became frightened, and moved about, so that the raft overbalanced. Mace clung to it, and was saved; the others were drowned, and their bodies were recovered the same night, two having been brought out by a man called Emery Smith, of Patteshall-Street and the third by means of a drag. – At the inquest, before Dr. Prior on Thursday afternoon, the jury found in each case a verdict of "Accidental death". – The Coroner and jury warmly commended Smith for his gallant conduct in diving into the water."
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