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Military service
Service number:
SF/8089
Age:
27
Rank:
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Cape Breton Highlanders, R.C.I.C
Birth:
July 17, 1919
Pictou, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
March 16, 1942
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 28, 1946
Hay Cove, Nova Scotia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Lot 174.
Additional information
Son of Sarah Wheaton, of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Company Quarter Master Sergeant Wheten was a passenger in the vehicle driven by his brother, John (Jack) Aloysius Wheaton when the accident occurred. Both were killed.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp
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Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William Owen Wheten
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William Owen Wheten
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William Owen Wheten
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Commemorated on:
Page 591 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ANTIGONISH (ST. NINIAN'S) R.C. CEMETERY Nova Scotia, Canada
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