Arthur Leslie WHEELER
Forename(s): Arthur Leslie
Surname: WHEELER
Date of birth: 1898 (approx., calculated)
Date of death: 19 Apr 1917
Age at death: 19 years
IWCP - 12 May 1917 - The Island and the War - Newport - Rifleman Arthur Leslie Wheeler, Hants Regiment. aged 19, reported wounded and missing, is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wheeler, of 146 Pyle-street, Newport, and was serving in the I.W. Rifles as a boy. Too young to go out to Gallipoli, much to his own disappointment, he remained in the Island on coast defence work until the middle of 1916, when he went out to Egypt. He was a boy chorister at St. Paul's, Barton, Junior Brotherhood. One brother is serving in the Island Company of Engineers in France, and another is on a transport.
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Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORYOF
CHARLES FRANK WHEELER
DIED 28TH SEP. 1930 AGED 58
AT REST
ALSO
HIS BELOVED WIFE ANNE
WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY 17TH DEC. 1937 AGED 73
ALSO
ARTHUR LESLIE WHEELER
KILLED AT GAZA 19TH APRIL 1917, AGED 19.
Transcription by: Tony Barton