Rank
Private
Regiment
South Staffordshire Regiment
Date of death
26 October 1917
Age of death
19
Address
2 Granville Villas
Granville Road
South Woodford
Woodford
E18 1LD
Address source
1911 Census
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
Belgium
Biography
Born in 1898 at Woodford, son of Joseph (Milkman) and Elizabeth Wheeler. 1901: With his family at 1 Sherwood Cottages, Victoria Road, South Woodford. 1911: A Scholar with his family at 2 Granville Villas, Granville Road, South Woodford. The family home was later 35 Granville Road, South Woodford.
Joseph Wheeler was Killed in Action near “Tower Hamlets” in the Ypres Salient, during the first day of the Second Battle of Passchendaele.
Research by Adrian Lee, Local Historian
Sources:
Ancestry.com