WHEATLEY, John Russell
Credit: CWGCStaff Serjeant
1st Battalion The Glider Pilot Regiment
Army Air Corps
John was born 1921 in Newport, the eldest son, to the Rev. Leslie John Douglas & Ethel WHEATLEY of Berry Hill in Carisbrooke. Before the War, John was on the staff of a London branch of Lloyds Bank.
John, aged 22, was a Glider Pilot & killed in Action on the 10th of July 1943 in Sicily. His body was never found or identified & he is commemorated by the Commission on the Cassino War Memorial to The Missing in Italy together with over 4,000 of his Second World War comrades.
John is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial.
