Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Le Touret MemorialPanels 6 to 8.
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.138
3. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour31B 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:

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.

John Wheen served during the Boer War in 1900, as a Lieutenant with the King's Liverpool Regt and was awarded the QSA with one clasp. He was invalided home wounded.

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 :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Wellesley No. 1899 E.C.Berkshire

Initiated
Passed
Raised
6th June 1907
4th July 1907
3rd October 1907
 

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