WHEATLEY, William James Charles
| Service Number: | 340 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Southwark, South London, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Darlinghurst, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Died: | Died of wounds, 2/1 South Midland C.C.S., Warloy, France, 3 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Grave II. A. 23., Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Warloy-Baillon, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 340, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 340, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Jun 1876 WHEATLEY William James C St. Saviour 1d 38.
He was aged 39 and had emigrated to Australia some years before the outbreak of war. Before emigrating, he had been employed by Mr T. H. Boys, the Magistrates‟ Clerk for Margate. In September 1914, William joined the Australian Imperial Force at Sydney and sailed from Melbourne three months later. He was severely wounded in action at Gallipoli in May 1915 when a bullet passed through his chest and he was again severely wounded in action in France when he received a gun-shot wound to his right thigh, from which he later succumbed. His father, William Wheatley Snr, was First Assistant Master at the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb Children. He left a widow, Suzannah Sargent Wheatley, 358 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, later of 10 Hopewell Street, Paddington, then 17 Cascade Street, Paddington, N.S.W.
He is honoured on the Margate War Memorial 1914-18 located in Trinity Square.
He is also honoured on the Margate War Shrine.
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