National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

Material relating to Wheldon's 'Distinguished Service Order' (D.S.O.).

File 3.
Series

Maps, plans and aerial photographs relating to the 3rd Battle of Ypres.

File 5.
Series

Letter from H.E. ap Rhys Pryce (Brigadier General Commanding 113th Infantry Brigade) to the Mayor of Wattignies-la-Victoire, France, and the Councillors,

BMSS/39630.
File
1918, Nov. 14.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Regarding the liberation of the town by the allies and the union between the British and French. (Typed, in French).

Map : ‘Reproduction of captured German Map with British grid superimposed.’ Northern France,

BMSS/39624.
File
1918, Oct. 14.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Indicates locations of trenches, dugout shafts, centres of machine gun resistance, wire, organised shell holes and rifle pits, damaged areas. Scale - 1:20000.

Message to the 14th Battn. RWF from the 113th Brigade offering condolences on the deaths of Lieuts. Hunkin and Llewellyn,

BMSS/39621.
File
1918, Nov. 4.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Requests position details and current situation.

Operation Order (Secret) between 4 battalions on the battlefield (Belgium, around Pilckem),

BMSS/39622.
File
1918, Aug. 4.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Locations; command to clean up trenches and dugouts; command to complete burials.

‘H.M. Forces Overseas (in Uniform) Combined Leave and Railway Tickets’,

BMSS/39637.
File
1917-1918.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

‘H.M. Forces Overseas (in Uniform) Combined Leave and Railway Tickets’ granted to Wheldon: (i.) First Class, from France to Senior Officer’s School, Aldershot; (ii.) First Class, from Llanberis to France; (iii.) First Class, from Llanberis to France.

Photograph of Major Wheldon with 3 other men in uniform [officers?], France,

BMSS/39640.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Newspaper cutting : “Welsh Gallantry on Pilckem Ridge”,

BMSS/39633.
File
1917.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Letters and Messages of Congratulations,

BMSS/39647.
File
1917-1918.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Letters and Messages of Congratulations from various correspondents to Major W.P. Wheldon on the receipt of his D.S.O. (Distinguished Service Order): (i.) Blackader, C.G., Major General; (ii.) Hugh Jones, Sergeant, 14th Battn.; (iii.) H. (?) Davies; (iv.) S. Tucker, 14th Battn. RWF; (v.) Huw Pryce-Jones, G.H.Q.; (vi.) E.S. Anton, C.S.M., B. Coy.; (vii.) G. Banks; (viii.) E. Uniacke; (ix.) H. Egerton, J. Rausing, J. Ivor Williams; (x.) J.E. Lloyd, Secretary & Registrar, UCNW; (xi.) Harry Reichel, Principal, UCNW.

German Prisoner of War Letter,

BMSS/39645.
File
1917, Aug. 5.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

From [unknown] to ‘Josef Werner’, München, Bayern, Germany. The German Soldier speaks of how his camp was taken over by another regiment, and that he was left behind as he was not the best in the section. The enemy attacked, he was injured and was left in a ditch where the crew of an English tank found him. He was then taken through German artillery fire to an English Red Cross Aid post and then on to an English hospital in France where he states he was treated perfectly by the English.

Map of Louvignies-Quesnoy, Northern France (near the Belgian border),

BMSS/39657.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Indicates: British Front Line, points of likely resistance, lines of rifle pits or organised shell holes.

Map of South East of Cambrai, Northern France (Bohain area),

BMSS/39653.
File
1918, Sept. 2.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Indicates enemy trenches and organisation. Scale – 1:20000.

Map of Engelfontaine, France (on fragile tracing paper),

BMSS/39658.
File
1918, Nov. 3.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Indicates objectives, hazards, inter-battalion boundaries and battalion assembly areas.

Map of Englefontaine, Northern France,

BMSS/39659.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Displays enemy dispositions. Scale – 1:20000.

Material relating to the 38th (Welsh) Division, 14th (Service) Royal Welch Fusiliers.

File 1.
Series

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

‘Secret Assembly Orders’ given to the 14th (Service) Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers,

BMSS/39619.
File
1917, July 30.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

In the hand of Major W.P. Wheldon.

Telegram from the Secretary of the War Office to Mrs. Wheldon, Prestatyn,

BMSS/39642.
File
1918, Nov. 10.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Informing her that Major Wheldon was admitted to hospital in Rouen with a gun shot wound to his knee.

‘Recommendation for immediate award’,

BMSS/39620.
File
1917, Aug. 3.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Letter written by Major W. P. Wheldon recommending ‘W. Way’ [?] of the 15th Battn. for an award for his gallantry on the battlefield. Note on the reverse: “Many thanks, Way will not be forgotten - JPD.”

War Diary of the 14th (Service) Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers,

BMSS/39649.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

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