This memorial page is dedicated to Leslie Walter Wheeler, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Name: Wheeler
First names: Leslie Walter
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 9 May 1920
Place of birth: 34 Shakespeare Road, Sittingbourne, Kent
Residence: –
Rank / Occupation: Lance Corporal
Identity tag: 2619055
Unit: Grenadier Guards, 4th Battalion
Date of death: 5 November 1944
Place of death: Neerkant
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: Mook War Cemetery
Memorial site: –


Additional information

Grave location: IV. B. 1.

Aged 24. Son of Martin Luther Wheeler (surname changed, formerly Bradley) and Alice Jane Wheeler-Ivory, of Sittingbourne, Kent.

The field graves of Leslie Walter Wheeler, Francis Cook Lear, Francis Howarth and Gordon Blake were situated near Heide No. 111 in Neerkant.

The sisters Frieda (1), Mien (3), Mia (4), Agnes (5) and Gerda (8) Beurskens are buried, together with three unknown children (2, 6, 7), near the field graves of the soldiers mentioned above.
href="https://oorlogsslachtoffers.nl/en/deurne-3/francis-howarth/">Francis Howarth en Gordon Blake bevonden zich nabij Heide N. 111 te Neerkant.

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