Army Number: 9890

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham and lived at Stapleford, Nottingham. Son of William and Maria Wheelhouse, of 5, Alveys Yard, Fisher Gate, Nottingham. Husband of Hannah Maria Gibson (formerly Wheelhouse), of 5, Luther Square, Halls Road, Stapleford, Nottingham. He was a regular soldier and enlisted at Nottingham. He went to France on 9th September 1914 and was killed in action, on 9th August 1915, aged 30, in the attack at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Lance Corporal Frederick Wheelhouse is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
St. Mary’s Church Roll of Honor, Nottingham.

His brother Private Leonard Wheelhouse, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.