Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Le Touret Memorial | Panels 6 to 8. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.138 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 31B GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | Queen's South Africa Medal 1 x Clasp | ||
Family :
Son of Richard and Augusta Wheen, of 155, Gloucester Terrace, London.Education & Career :
When went to Radley College, being in E Social from 1894.
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, South Africa.
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 1/The King's (Liverpool Regiment) |
1st Battalion August 1914 : in Aldershot. Part of 6th Brigade, 2nd Division. Landed at Le Havre 13 August 1914 |
| Action : The Battle of Festubert |
Festubert (15-25 May 1915) was really a continuation of the Battle of Aubers Ridge that had been called off on 10th May, and in places fought over the same ground with the same depressing outcome. Some minor tactical success was achieved but it did not justify the 16,000 casualties. It did however reinforce the lessons of Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge and conditioned planning and thinking that evolved into the tactical planning of the Somme in 1916.
He was wounded again in France in 1914.
Detail :
Missing, presumed killed in action, Battle of Festubert (part of the 2nd Battle of Ypres).
His death was reported in the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal on the 7th and 8th of July, 1916: " Captain John Wheen, 1st Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment, who was killed in action on May 15-16, 1915, was educated at Radley College. He joined the militia in 1899, and served in the South African War, attached to the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers. He was invalided home, and sub-sequently received his commission in the King's Regiment. He joined the 1st Battalion in France in November, 1914, and was reported wounded and missing at the battle of Festubert on May 16 last year. Capt. Wheen was the youngest son of the late Richard and Augusta Wheen, of Mappleton, Ashbourne and was in his thirty-sixth year."
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Wellesley No. 1899 E.C. | Berkshire |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
6th June 1907 | 4th July 1907 | 3rd October 1907 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley