John Piggott Wheeler M.C.
Major – “D” Battery,
92nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Division 32
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John Piggott Wheeler, was the youngest son of Samuel Wheeler and Elizabeth Wheeler of, 30, Craven Road, Reading. He is commemorated on a family memorial in the corner of Division. John Wheeler was born in June 1892, and entered the Royal Artillery from the Territorial Force in August 1914.
He received his M.C. for “Conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He, with great coolness and disregard of danger, reorganised his drivers and teams, and succeeded in getting his guns into action under the most trying conditions”.
He was killed in action on 29th October 1917, aged 25. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium, location Plot 9, Row E. Grave 23.