SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Private Thomas Wheelhouse, 15879

Private Thomas Wheelhouse, 15879
Manchester Regiment 2nd Bn.

Newspaper obituary:

" Mrs Wheelhouse, of 25 Kirkham Street, Oldham, has received word that her husband, Private Tom Wheelhouse, of the Manchester Regiment, died on July 4th from wounds received the previous day. He was 47 years of age and has three sons fighting in France. One of the sons was wounded and has recently gone back to the front. Private Wheelhouse, who was employed as a weft carrier at the West End Mill, served 21 years and eight months in the old Volunteer Force and was in the 10th Battalion Manchester Regiment of the Territorial Force for four years. Then he left the Territorials but when the war came he enlisted in the Manchester Regiment. He leaves a widow and nine children"

CWGC

Private 15879
Date of Death:04/07/1916
Manchester Regiment 2nd Bn
I. C. 35.
WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

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