Dutch naval officer Gideon de Wildt

Gideon de Wildt served the Admiralty of Amsterdam. He was born in Amsterdam on 26 June 1624. He died there on 12 September 1665. He served in the First Anglo-Dutch War as a division commander. He was 27, almost 28 years old at the start of the war. He commanded at the Battles of the Kentish Knock and Dungeness in 1652. He took part in the operation to Nyborg in 1659. In 1644, he was promoted to captain. On 29 January 1665, he was promoted to Schout-bij-Nacht. I have added to my translation of the passage in Luc Eekhout's Het Admiralenboek.