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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
To be able to look forward, you must be able to look back
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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
George William
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
WHEELER
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
8/2760
Otago Infantry Battalion, "D" Coy. 2nd Battalion
Also Known As
Date of Birth
16/12/1892
Place of Birth
Reading, Berkshire, England
Date of Death
01/10/1916
Place of Death
Somme, Northern France
Death Registration Number
Headstone/Grave Location
Memorialised at Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Longueval, Somme, France
Next of Kin
Ernest (Father)
Elizabeth Ann Biggs (mother), died 1899
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Killed in Action.
His father Ernest was an employee of the Union Steam Ship Company and his family were living in Rarotonga between approximately 1915 and 1919.
Ernest's second wife Louisa gave birth to a son, Philip George Arthur, in Rarotonga 15/05/1919.
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