HORACE+WHEATLEY

Wheatley, Horace, Gunner, 820459 (Soldiers Died: 820439), “Y” 57th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery Born: Dale Abbey, Ilkeston Enlisted: Derby Killed in action 5th September 1917 Aged 24 Son of John Wheatley, of Flourish, Dale Abbey, Ilkeston, Derbyshire Buried in Rue-Pettilon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. Grave reference: I N 36

1911 Census Born Ilkeston, Derbyshire, about 1893 Employed as a farm worker A servant in the household of John J. Wholey, a farmer, of Allamoor Farm, Farnsfield, Southwell, Nottinghamshire