Personal Details

Born: 13 December 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

Family: He was the fourth of nine surviving children of Henry Wharton, a bricklayer’s labourer, and his wife Mary. He married Kathleen A O’Neill in 1927 in Whitchurch; no children can be located for the marriage.

Residence: In 1901 and 1911 he was living with his family at 29 Newtown, Whitchurch. The 1919 Absent Voters’ Register had an address of 7 Newtown, Whitchurch for him. In 1939 he was living at 22 Grindley Brook, Whitchurch; this was his address at the time of his death in 1940.

Employment: In 1939 he was a steel erector.

Died: In 1940, in Whitchurch, aged 43 and was buried on 14 August the same year in Whitchurch cemetery.

Military Details

Reason for Discharge: Demobilisation

Further Military details not known.