Corporal Gilbert W Wheeler

Family/Last name:
Wheeler
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Gilbert W
Nationality:
Service number:
5250845
Rank when captured:
POW number:
15714
Camp
Working Party
Data sources
Service RecordsOther Sources (Relative Report)

Wheeler probably wrote often to his wife. The picture of one of those letters is attached and was provided by Suzanne Macklin, his daughter. It reads:

24/5/42
My Darling Bessie,

I received a letter from you last week, I’m sorry to hear you & Paul have been ill, but I hope you are better now, how is everyone at home. I’m still well & fit so dont worry darling, & I think we shall soon be together again. I’ve enclosed a photo in this of myself, Steve Outhwaite the shoe minder, & Lionel Breskal the interpreter, I hope you will like it.

Sweetheart never forget for one minute that I love you, your always in my thoughts, & I know you love me.

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