Family group:

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. D. Wheatley, Royal Field Artillery

1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Territorial Decoration, E.VII.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1908, complete with brooch bar; Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (Capt., 1/Cumb’d. R.G.A.V.)

Volunteer Decoration, V.R., rev. inscribed, ‘Major & Hon. Lt. Col. J. A. Wheatley’, hallmarks for London 1892, complete with brooch bar, good very fine and better (6) £400-450

Major James Percival Dalemain Wheatley, 1st Cumberland (Howitzer) Battery, 4th East Lancashire (Howitzer) Brigade was awarded the T.D. in 1909 (London Gazette 14 May 1909). As a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Field Artillery he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in November 1915.

Captain and Honorary Major James Atkinson Wheatley, 1st Cumberland Artillery, was awarded the V.D. in 1893 (London Gazette 28 February 1893).