The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal G Wheatley

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Lance Corporal George WHEATLEY, G/8, 6th  Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd May 1917, age 32.

Born Hartfield, Sussex, son of George & Ellen Wheatley, of Newtons Hill, Hartfield, Sussex.

19th August 1888, Hartfield Sussex, baptism of George Wheatley, son of George, (labourer), & Ellen Wheatley.

1911 Census - Newton's Hill, Hartfield, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent - George Wheatley, head, age 55, married, platelayer on railway, London Brighton & South Eastern Railway Company, worker, born Hartfield, Sussex; Ellen Wheatley, wife, age 45, married 23 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Hartfield, Sussex; George Wheatley, son, age 22, single, labourer working on farm, worker, born Hartfield, Sussex; Carry Wheatley, daughter, age 15, single, nurse girl, domestic, worker, born Hartfield, Sussex.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated  Arras  Memorial, Bay 7, Pas de Calais, France. / Hartfield War Memorial.

Photograph by "Bruno H"

Brother - Lance Corporal William Wheatley, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, Service No.6687. Died 7th April 1915, from wounds received on 19th March 1915. Son of George & Ellen Wheatley, of Newtons Hill, Hartfield, Sussex. 19th January 1915, posted BEF. Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Grave III D 80. Commemorated  Hartfield War Memorial.