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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: DaveDave on Sunday 29 April 12 21:07 BST (UK)
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Hi
This photo was sent to our Facebook group by someone that had been to Egypt on holiday as we're all ex-Sappers - would be great if we could find his records and then find his ancestors and give them a copy of this photo.
Can any of your experts help?
The "engraving" says (but it looks like he made a mistake on the H)
SAPPER
I. A. WHEAL
R.E. 1892
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers
Dave
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Looks like it could be
Isaac Alfred Wheal 1870 b Croydon London,Surrey
attested 3 Jul 1888 Royal Engineers No 23000
trade slater
discharge 2/7/1900
father Isaac Wheal 34 Lahor Road,Croydon
Egypt 26/11/89-25/12/92
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Excellent!
Are you able to find out any more, maybe his Army Records, Unit he was with etc?
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I,m going through his army records now 8 pages of them
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1871 census
Isaac Wheal 42 labourer b Winingale?Essex
Louisa 33 wife b Shinfield Essex
Harry W 12 son b Bermondsey
Charles J 7 son b ditto
John 5 son b Surrey
Isaac A 1 son b Croydon Surrey
Lahore Road,Croydon
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Fantastic!
Would you be able to go down his family free to see who his living relatives are? We could then surprise them with the photo of what he carved in a monument in Egypt...
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Death
Isaac A Wheal aged 56
Mar qu 1926 Croydon 2a 523
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an Isaac A Wheal married Lillian Howard Dec qu 1915 Lewisham 1d 3245
theres a death for a Lillian Wheal aged 78 Oct qu 1957 Croydon 5g 161