Services for Soldier Who Died In Jap Prison to Be Held in Lancaster
Lancaster, SC - Oct 29 - Graveside services will be conducted Sunday at 3 pm in Lancaster Memorial Park for William Wesley Wheeler, 31, who died in action in the Philippine Islands, July 22, 1942. Rev. James F. Burriss, Pastor of the First Baptist church will conduct the services.
Private Wheeler enlisted in the United States Army April 1940, and served with the US Engineers in the Pacific. He was reported missing in action since the surrender of Corregidor on May 7, 1942, and later died in Cabanatuan Prison Camp.
He was the son of the late Mills and Ada Jane Funderburk Wheeler of Lancaster. He is survived by one brother Eugene Wheeler of Lancaster, four half-sisters and a half-brother.
The Charlotte Observer (NC) Oct 30, 1949 - provided by: Catoe4
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Private First Class William W. Wheeler (age 31), (S/N 7033012), 803rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation, died at 3:00 am on 22 July 1942 of dysentery, in Barracks 4, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1097th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years.
Contributor: steve s (47126287)
Lancaster, SC - Oct 29 - Graveside services will be conducted Sunday at 3 pm in Lancaster Memorial Park for William Wesley Wheeler, 31, who died in action in the Philippine Islands, July 22, 1942. Rev. James F. Burriss, Pastor of the First Baptist church will conduct the services.
Private Wheeler enlisted in the United States Army April 1940, and served with the US Engineers in the Pacific. He was reported missing in action since the surrender of Corregidor on May 7, 1942, and later died in Cabanatuan Prison Camp.
He was the son of the late Mills and Ada Jane Funderburk Wheeler of Lancaster. He is survived by one brother Eugene Wheeler of Lancaster, four half-sisters and a half-brother.
The Charlotte Observer (NC) Oct 30, 1949 - provided by: Catoe4
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Private First Class William W. Wheeler (age 31), (S/N 7033012), 803rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation, died at 3:00 am on 22 July 1942 of dysentery, in Barracks 4, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1097th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years.
Contributor: steve s (47126287)
Services for Soldier Who Died In Jap Prison to Be Held in Lancaster
Lancaster, SC - Oct 29 - Graveside services will be conducted Sunday at 3 pm in Lancaster Memorial Park for William Wesley Wheeler, 31, who died in action in the Philippine Islands, July 22, 1942. Rev. James F. Burriss, Pastor of the First Baptist church will conduct the services.
Private Wheeler enlisted in the United States Army April 1940, and served with the US Engineers in the Pacific. He was reported missing in action since the surrender of Corregidor on May 7, 1942, and later died in Cabanatuan Prison Camp.
He was the son of the late Mills and Ada Jane Funderburk Wheeler of Lancaster. He is survived by one brother Eugene Wheeler of Lancaster, four half-sisters and a half-brother.
The Charlotte Observer (NC) Oct 30, 1949 - provided by: Catoe4
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Private First Class William W. Wheeler (age 31), (S/N 7033012), 803rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation, died at 3:00 am on 22 July 1942 of dysentery, in Barracks 4, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1097th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years.
Contributor: steve s (47126287)
Lancaster, SC - Oct 29 - Graveside services will be conducted Sunday at 3 pm in Lancaster Memorial Park for William Wesley Wheeler, 31, who died in action in the Philippine Islands, July 22, 1942. Rev. James F. Burriss, Pastor of the First Baptist church will conduct the services.
Private Wheeler enlisted in the United States Army April 1940, and served with the US Engineers in the Pacific. He was reported missing in action since the surrender of Corregidor on May 7, 1942, and later died in Cabanatuan Prison Camp.
He was the son of the late Mills and Ada Jane Funderburk Wheeler of Lancaster. He is survived by one brother Eugene Wheeler of Lancaster, four half-sisters and a half-brother.
The Charlotte Observer (NC) Oct 30, 1949 - provided by: Catoe4
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Private First Class William W. Wheeler (age 31), (S/N 7033012), 803rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation, died at 3:00 am on 22 July 1942 of dysentery, in Barracks 4, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1097th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years.
Contributor: steve s (47126287)
Inscription
William W Wheeler / South Carolina / PFC 809 Engr Aviation Regt / World War II / Jan 11 1911 - July 22 1942/
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Military Headstone - application completed Nov 1949
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