Joseph Wheeler

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
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