WHEELOCK Victor Robert

  • First Name(s):
    Victor 
    Robert 
  • Surname:
    WHEELOCK
  • Service Number:
    45188
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    Formerly Private 71126, Devonshire Regiment.
  • Date of Death:
    20th May 1918
  • Age At Death:
    19
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Esquelbecq Military Cemetery, France, Grave II. D. 4.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Mr and Mrs Walter Wheelock, of Kermaria, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial with the information: Private.

Further Information About WHEELOCK Victor Robert

Native of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.

Robert Wheelock was born in 1899.  He attended Bromsgrove School from 1915 to 1916. After leaving School, Wheelock was a clerk in Lloyds Bank, Bromsgrove until he was eighteen.  He enlisted in 1917 and had been at the front about seven weeks before his death.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

The following information has been researched by Andy Frisby:
Victor Wheelock was born at Bromsgrove in 1898, the son of Walter and Fanny (nee Culverhouse) Wheelock. Walter was a farmer and the couple had 4 children:
Gladys Maud Wheelock born 1896
Frances Violet Wheelock born 1897
Victor Robert Wheelock born 1899
Gwendoline M. Wheelock born 1902
The family resided at Caspidge Farm, Finstall before the parents emigrated to Kermaria, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Bromsgrove Droitwich and Redditch Messenger, 1st June 1918:
Information was received on Friday of last week by Mrs Gibbins of Marlborough Avenue, that Private Victor Robert Wheelock of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers had been killed in action by shrapnel.  The deceased, who was 19 years of age, was the only son of Mr and Mrs Walter Wheelock, late of Bromsgrove and made his home with Mrs Gibbins, who was his great-aunt.  He was engaged as a clerk at Lloyds Bank, Bromsgrove up to the time he was 18 and was a Bromsgrove School Old Boy.  He enlisted a year ago and had been at the front about seven weeks.

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