Service Details
Name:
 WHEAL
Given Name:
 ANDRE CHARLES
Initials:
 A C
Rank:
 Seaman
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 M.V. Prince Baudouin
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Date of Death:
 1943-05-15
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Date of Birth:
 1915-01-03
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died of pulmonary tuberculosis
Additional
Information:
Son of John Thomas and Ada Jane (nee Fordham) Wheal. Born Oudtshoorn. Educated Boys' High School, Outdshoorn. Cadet Draft 1931-32. On leaving General Botha, Andre Charles Wheal joined the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. From the outbreak of war until 17th August 1942, Andre Charles Wheal served in the Merchant Navy, when he was admitted to hospital suffering from tuberculosis. The Prince Baudouin, in which he was serving, was then at Port Said. He was later transferred as a Distressed British Seaman to South Africa and sent to the Durban Hospital, where he subsequently died
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Kwazulu Natal
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Cemetery:
 DURBAN (STELLAWOOD) CEMETERY
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