Wildeblood won a scholarship to Radley College and then went to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1941, but almost immediately volunteered for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and trained as a pilot in Southern Rhodesia.
Wildeblood won a scholarship to Radley College and then went up to Trinity College, Oxford in 1941, but dropped out after ten days because of ill health. Soon afterwards he volunteered for the Royal Air Force and trained as a pilot in Southern Rhodesia.