Private Peter George Wheatley
- Rank
- Private
- 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 - PTE Kenneth Burley
- Dedicated by
- Family on 17 August 2013
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Private Peter George Wheatley 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 posted 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.
Private Peter George Wheatley, service number 4023 of 51 Battalion, was killed in action at Villers Bretonneux on 24 April 1918. He was 32 years of age.
His plaque is placed alongside those of known relatives Private Peter James Wheatley of 2/43 Battalion and Sapper Kenneth Burley of 2/6 Field Park Company.