Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major W.P.R. Wheatley, Indian Army, late Middlesex Regiment

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, G.V.R.; AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (2nd Lieut., Middx. Regt.); 1914 MoNS STAR (Capt., S. & T. Corps.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. (Maj.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Maj., I.A.S.C.); DELHI DURBAR 1911 (Captain, S. & T. Corps.) the group on an original court mounting, nearly extremely fine (7)

D.S.O., London Gazette, 25 August, 1917: 'for distinguished service in the field in Mesopotamia.'

M.I.D., London Gazette, 15 August, 1917.

William Prescott Ross Wheatley was born in 1878 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Middlesex Regiment, on 4 December, 1901. He served in EastAfrica during the Somaliland campaign in 1903, and was present at the action at Jidhalli. He transferred to the Indian Army in 1904.