Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Seven: Leading Seaman W. B. Wheeler, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve

British War Medal 1914-20 (J. 58371 Boy 1, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve, G.V.R., coinage bust (J. 58371 (Po. B. 17790) L.S., R.F.R.), minor official correction to number on the last, generally good very fine or better (7) £100-120

Wallace Bernard Wheeler was born at Bexhill, Sussex in November 1900 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class at the training establishment Ganges in August 1916. He first appears to have gone to sea in the sloop Wallflower in October 1918, having been posted to the Malta depot ship Egmont in the same month. Wheeler was advanced to Leading Seaman in February 1926.