Wilf served in the RAF as a PTI from 1939 - 1946 leaving as a F/Sgt. He was selected for the British Olympic Team as a runner but the Olympics were cancelled due to the war. In 1952, he and his family immigrated to Canada and the same year he enlisted as a Corporal in the RCAF in the newly formed Recreation Specialist trade. After initial training and a short stint at RCAF Trenton, he was posted to 3 Wing, Zweibrucken, Germany (1953-1956).  Subsequent postings were to RCAF Foymount (1956-1957); RCAF Goose Bay (1957-1960) and RCAF Greenwood (1960-1966). Upon release, he returned to England where he attended university, graduating as a Physical Education teacher, his profession for the next ten years. Missing Canada, he and his wife (Renee) moved back to Greenwood where Wilf was employed as the Director of Community Recreation Programs. He subsequently moved to Berwick, NS where he was employed as a Development Manager for several years. He was inducted in the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame for coaching the NS Ladies Field Hockey Team to several national championships. In 1983, he graduated from Acadia University as the first senior citizen to earn a Master of  Recreation degree. Throughout his life, Wilf was an athlete, a writer, a coach and an organizer par excellence. He loved the Air Force and the sunsets on the Bay of Fundy over which his ashes received burial from the air upon his death in 2001.