Private Peter George Wheatley
- Rank
- Private
- Appointment
- Australian Army 1918 Western Front
- Service number
- 4023
- Unit
- 51 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Villers Bretonneux, France
- Date of death
- 24 April 1918
- Age
- 32
- Plaque number
- L146
- Co-located plaques
- L146A - PTE Peter Wheatley
- L146B - SPR Kenneth Burley
- Dedicated by
- His family on 17 August 2013
- More information
Biography presented during the plaque dedication:
Private Peter George Wheatley of 51st Australian Infantry Battalion was born in October 1884 at Warren in Western Australia. He was one of seven sons and six daughters born to Peter and Ellen Wheatley of Picton. He attended school at Warren and, after leaving school, took up farming at Oakleigh near Bridgetown. Peter married Alison Higgins in 1907 and they had a daughter, Olive and two sons, Raymond and Harold. They lived at Zabina Street, Mount Lawley.
He enlisted at Bunbury in September 1916 and trained at Blackboy Hill Military Camp before being sent to Victoria. Peter embarked on HMAT Aeneas at Melbourne in November 1917 and arrived at Devonport, England, in December. He was posted to 13 Training Battalion at Codford but was hospitalised there for most of January 1918. He then proceeded to France from Dover in March 1918 and joined 51 Battalion in the field.
Private Peter George Wheatley, regimental number 4023 of 51 Battalion, was killed in action at Villers Bretonneux on 24 April 1918. He was 32 years of age.
He has no known grave and his official memorial is the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. His Place of Association is Bridgetown, Western Australia.
His is the relative Private Peter James Wheatley (killed in action) and Sapper Kenneth Brooks Burley (died as a Prisoner of War).