Charles Elgin Wheeland

Rank:

Corporal

Regimental number:

7849

Unit at enlistment:

7th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Newmarket Cemetery, Newmarket, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Victoria Public School Honour Roll

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Scotland, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

14 Chestnut Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

14 Chestnut Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Chainman

Religious denominations:

Wesleyan

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX July 25, 1916

Sprained his Knee

Sapper Charles Elgin Wheeland of the 4th Field Company, Canadian Engineers, is now in the base hospital with a sprained knee. He was working on a bridge, from which he fell, causing the injury on May 29. It was some time before he sent word to his home here.

BX December 3, 1917

Returning Home

Mr. and Mrs. C.E.M. Wheeland, 29 Palmerston Avenue, have just received a cable from their son, Corporal Charles Elgin Wheeland, informing them that he will spend Christmas with them. This is exceedingly good news in view of the fact that Corp. Wheeland has been overseas for three years and has not been home once during that time. It is expected that his furlough will last about one month. He enlisted as a private with the 7th Mounted Rifles and until one year ago was engaged in the building of trenches and barbwire entanglements in France. Here he injured his knee so seriously that he was unfit for further field work and was transferred to the C.A.M.C., with which he has since been serving in a clerical capacity.

BX August 16, 1969

WHEELAND, Charles Elgin – At Montreal, on Thursday August 14, 1969 Charles E. Wheeland husband of the late Olive Winnifred Taylor and dear father of R.F. Wheeland of Saskatchewan; K.G. Wheeland of Montreal; and G.T. Wheeland of St. Catharines. Resting at the Roadhouse and Ross Funeral Home 137 Main Street, Newmarket, after Sunday noon. Funeral service on Monday at 11 a.m. Interment Newmarket Cemetery.