Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Thomas Charles Wheatley of the 1st Light Horse Regiment. Courtesy of Louise Davies' Family Collection
Wheatley T C L Cpl 508 Thomas Charles 1 LHR 26 Farmer Single C of E
Address: Moonee Ponds, Ardmillan Rd 80
Next of Kin: Wheatley, Emma, Mrs, mother, "Warrawing", 80 Ardmillan Rd, Moonee Ponds
Enlisted: 28 Aug 1914
Embarked: A16 Star of Victoria 20 Oct 1914 (Sydney)
Relatives on Active Service:
Wheatley-R-L-Pte-3292 brother
Wheatley G A Sgt 647 cousin
Wheatley H D Pte 655 cousin
Wheatley N C Pte 1091 cousin KIA
Date of death: 26/09/1915
LONE PINE MEMORIAL
C Squadron of the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment parading through Cairo, 23 December 1914.
Courtesy of Louise Davies' Family Collection.
Lance Corporal T C Wheatley commemorated at Lone Pine.
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Lance Corporal Thomas Charles Wheatley
Lance Corporal, Australian Light Horse, First Regiment. Joined in Gilgandra, NSW. He was there farming a family pastoral property. His name is on the Lone Pine memorial. (Information courtesy of Lorraine Rogers.)
The Red Cross Correspondence file on T C Wheatley says that he left Gallipoli on the 15th September for Imbros to go as body-guard to Sir Ian Hamilton. It also mentions that he belonged to C Troop and C Squadron. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/1drl0428/2/291/6/1drl-0428-2-291-6-9.pdf
 Sir Ian Hamilton's Headquarters at Imbros, 1915. AWM G00494
Lance Corporal Wheatley became dangerously ill with enteric on 25 September 1915 and was admitted to 25 Casualty Clearing Station at Imbros on 26 Sept 1915. On the same day he was transferred to the Hospital Ship Gloucester Castle, but died at Gaba Tepe and was buried at sea off Anzac.
Hospital Ship Gloucester Castle. Source: http://www.wrecksite.eu/imgBrowser.aspx?4272
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War Service Commemorated
Essendon Town Hall R-Y
Essendon State School
St Thomas' Anglican Church*
St Thomas' Memorial Hall
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour DOI
Killed in Action
WHEATLEY. - On the 26th September, Corporal
Thomas Charles Wheatley, 1st Light Horse Regiment,
N.S.W., youngest son of the late William P. and T.
Emma Wheatley, of Warrawing, Ardmillan road,
Moonee Ponds.
The Argus 30 October 1915
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1576341
WHEATLEY. - Died of enteric at Alexandria Hospital,
on 26th September, 1915, Corporal Tom
Wheatley, after four months on active service
at Dardanelles, (By his loving friends, Bert, Ellen,
and Pollie Priddle.)
The Argus 27 October 1915
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1575159
In Memoriam
WHEATLEY -To Tom Wheatley (corporal, 1st
Light Horse) died 26th September, 1915, in
loving memory.
The Argus 26 September 1917
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1651859
WHEATLEY.-To Tom Wheatley (Corporal, 1st
Light Horse Regiment), died 26th September,
1915, in loving memory.
The Argus 26 September 1918
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1411071
WHEATLEY -To Tom Wheatley (corporal 1st
L H Regiment), died 26th September, 1915
In loving memory.
The Argus 26 September 1921
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4648893
No further Argus entries to 1925.
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