The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private P Wheatley

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Private Percy Ashdown WHEATLEY, G/24612, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 12th April 1917, age 38.

1st December 1878, born Bloomsbury, London, WC, son of George & Ruth Wheatley, of Ringmer, nr. Lewes, Sussex.

23rd February 1879, St George, Bloomsbury, baptism of Percy Wheatley, son of George, (Police Sergeant), & Ruth Wheatley, 4 Dyott Street.

1905, September Quarter, Paddington Registration District, Percy Wheatley, married Norah Lilian Tarsey, The Cottage, Quay Road, St. Agnes, Cornwall.

Children - Pauline Norah Wheatley, born 24th January 1908;

1911 Census - 160 London Road, Wembley, Middlesex - Percy Wheatley, head, age 32, married, clerk, tailors (maker), worker, born Holborn, London; Norah Wheatley, wife, age 31, married 5 years, 1child, still alive, born Reading, Berkshire; Pauline Wheatley, daughter, age 3, born Willesden, Middlesex; Constance Tarsey, niece, age 8, (school, crossed out), born Englefield Green, Surrey.

Children - Peter George Wheatley, born 12th July 1915.

Enlisted Wembley, Middlesex.

5th July 1917, Probate - Percy Wheatley, of Maplesbury, 160 London Road, Wembley, Middlesex, Private Royal West Kent Regiment, died 11th April 1917, in France. Probate London 5th July to Norah Lilian Wheatley, widow. Effects £349 19s 3d.

Buried at Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, I. H. 31., Pas de Calais, France.

Note - CWGC shows date od death as 12th April 1917, other records show it as 12th April 1917.