Admitted to hospital November 1916 sickness severe
(undated reverse) one clasp "Gemaizah 1888" correct period engraved naming to 3054
EMB: 20th Oct 1914
Kabul" engraved 4560 Dvr
He was wounded in action with a gunshot wound on 2 September 1918 and was invalided to Weymouth Hospital
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2328 Pte. J. Wheeler, 2nd Wilts. Regt.) Miscellaneous Admitted to hospital November 1916Queens South Africa 1899 1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2328 Pte. J. Wheeler, 2nd Wilts. Regt.) Footnote 2328 Private J. Wheeler, 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, was one of a number of men of the battalion to be tried and convicted by Court Martial, for receiving stolen goods and drunkenness on duty, 13 April 1901. This conviction was later held to be illegal and was ordered to be erased