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WHEELER, Claude Joseph
(Service number 12004)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	19 March 1885	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	11 January 1916	Age	30 years 9 months
Address at Enlistment	24 Lytton Road, Gisborne
Occupation	Builder
Previous Military Experience	3 years -
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Anne WHEELER (mother), 24 Lytton Road, Gisborne
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 8 inches. Weight 11 stone 6 lbs. Chest measurement 34-40 inches. Complexion dark. Eyes blue. Hair black. Sight - both eyes 6/6. Hearing fair. colour vision normal. Limbs well formed. full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Teeth artificial. No illnesses. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. No fits. Scar right of left thigh. No serious accident.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	New Zealand Field Engineers, No. 1 Field Company
Date	1 May 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
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Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	13 May 1919	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 November 1941	Age	56 years
Place of Death	Napier
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Claude Joseph Wheeler was the only son of Stephen and Ann (Annie, née Rogan) Wheeler. Born on 19 March 1885 at Waimate, he was baptised there at the Catholic Church on 19 April 1885. His oldest sister, Julia Marie Stephanie Wheeler, the wife of Leslie George O'Callaghan (killed in action in 1917), also gave service during the war. Married Dorothy May Delahunt on 29 September 1926 at Morven, near Waimate, South Canterbury. Son David (only child).

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [12 October 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5557 0121127) [13 October 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [12 October 2017]; Poverty Bay Herald, 24 November 1915, 8 January 1916, 17 April 1918, 13 July 1918, 17 April 1919, New Zealand Times, 17 March 1916, 30 August 1917, Wanganui Chronicle, 30 August 1917, New Zealand Herald, 5 September 1917, Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, 12 June 1918, Evening Post, 4 April 1919 (Papers Past) [13 October 2017]

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