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Pte. William Wheat

British Army 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps

from:Coventry

(d.21st Mar 1918)

My Great Uncle, William Wheat, fought with the 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps. I have no knowledge of his movements during the war. He fell in action aged 27 on 21st March 1918, leaving behind his young wife and three children. He died on the first day of the so called Advance to Victory. His body was never found, but his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme.

Wiliam's younger brother, James Wheat, also my Great Uncle, joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 12th December 1914. I have no knowledge of his movements during the war. Having survived whatever the Great War threw at him over four years, he died aged just 24 and unmarried on 6th November 1918, just five days before the Armistice. I don't know where he fell, but he is buried in the British Cemetery, Premont, Anise, France (Grave III.B.12).



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