Wilfred was educated at Thurlby Council School; at Grantham Technical Institute. M.U; and at the Victoria University, Manchester, where he acted as demonstrator of anatomy, and graduated M.B. and Ch.B. in 1910. He also took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. (Lond) in 1912 and the F.R.C.S. (Eng) in 1913. After filling the post of house-surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary; at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich; and the Anatomy Department of the Victoria Hospital, he went into practice with Dr Cheetham at Ashton-under-Lyne. He was granted a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. at the rank of Lieutenant on the 11th September 1914, and was promoted to temporary captain one year later on 11th September 1915. He was attached to a Belgian Army Hospital at Calais, and became Medical Officer [MO] of the 1/6th Bn. Welch Regiment. On 1st January 1917 he took a permanent commission at the rank of Lieutenant (T/Capt) in the RAMC. He was awarded the Military Cross for:- "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations. He was out every night tending the wounded under fire. On one occasion he went out 200 yards in advance of our front line and dressed a wounded man under machine-gun file, afterwards bringing him in." On 18th February 1917 he was relieved of his duty as M.O., 1/6th Welch Regiment and reported for duty with the 1st Field Ambulance. On 23rd April 1917 he transferred to the 2nd Field Ambulance for temporary duty, reporting back to the 1st Field Ambulance on the 27th. The following day he was appointed Adjutant & Sanitary officer of that unit. On 2nd July 1917, about 11.15 a.m., whilst returning from an inspection of house lives, he (along with 2 others) was struck by fragments of a shell to his back and was evacuated to the Belgium Red Cross, La Panne. He died from the wounds he received 9 days later. He was the son of Henry A and Elizabeth Sneath of Thurlby, Bourne, Lincoln.