WHEATER, THOMAS HERBERT
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24/09/1944
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Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
I. C. 8.
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He was was 1 of 9 children born to William S. Wheater (1876-195) and Elizabeth K. Williams (1878-1945). He was born on 29th November 1914 in West Ham, East London and married Vera J. Hodges in June 1944. His family moved to live in South Wales and so he is commemorated on the rood screen in St Gabriel church, Cwmbran, South Wales.
The 2nd battalion Monmouthshire fought around the area of Voorheide on the 24th of September 1944. He was initially buried there.
Initial gravesite at Voorheide, Belgium.
From the service records of Thomas Herbert Wheater, the following account can be reconstructed.
Thomas Herbert Wheater was born on 29 November 1914. He enlisted in the British Army at the age of fourteen, joining the Monmouthshire Regiment as a boy soldier. Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, his service records note that he was 5 feet 7 inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes. In civilian life he worked as an ironworker.
On 8 June 1936 he was transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, and on 9 July 1941 he returned to the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment.
He married Vera Jessie Hodges on 15 April 1944 in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire. The couple had no children.
Thomas Herbert Wheater embarked for service in North West Europe on 25 June 1944.
Thomas Wheater on the right.