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Pte. Albert Edward Wheeler
British Army 11th Battalion Notts and Derby Regiment
from:8 Grove Lane, Brimington Common, Chesterfield.
(d.16th Jan 1917)
Albert Wheeler was my Grandfather. He was born 21st June 1887 and died 16th Jan 1917 somewhere near Ypres, it is thought he was killed by shell fire while on sentry duty. He is buried in the Railway Dugout Burial Ground at Ypres in Belgium. His brother George, a Grenadier Guard died at Ginchy the previous September.
Albert, and his wife Harriet, and three sons Bertie, Frank and Geoffrey had emigrated from Derbyshire to Canada in April 1912. He kept a detailed diary of the journey in which he writes about seeing icebergs and then hearing that the SS Titanic has hit an iceberg and gone down with some people on board. Unfortunately, my Grandmother Harriet did not like life in Canada and the family returned to Derbyshire in 1914 with tragic consequences. Albert enlisted in the Army in 1915 and was posted to the Western Front. He never returned.
