George Arthur Wheatcroft
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment
My granddad, Arthur Wheatcroft, lied about his age to join the Army. He was two years younger then the required joining age. He fought in the East Kent Regiment in The Buffs. What the family knows about his time in the war, as he didn't like to recall his time and what he had experienced, was that his comrades and he were in a tank where a hand grenade was thrown in. He was demobed from continuing his duties with leg injuries that needing extensive skin grafts. He left the Army and married the nurse he met while recuperating.
He was today laid to rest at the grand age of 94 with his five war medals and his Buffs badge. A beautiful soldier's burial, with the great British flag cascaded over the casket, fit for a British hero accompanied by a bugler playing the last Post, and the flag bearer.
