Regiment Indian Army, 7th Hariana Lancers, A Squadron
Later
Now 18th King Edwards Own Cavarly, Indian Army
Rank VC Won Major
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Chakrata, United Provinces, India
Place Of Death North Mound, near Shaibah, Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
Buried/Location Ashes Basra War Cemetery (Cemetery damaged during the Iraq - Iran War and again during during the Allied invasion 2003/ 04), Iraq
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot III, Row C, Grave 22
Gazetted 1 September 1915
VC Presented Presented to his wife, after being sent to the India Office on 4 September 1916
Memorials
Named on family headstone at Deans Grange Cemetery, D·n Laoghaire, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
P Named on Hindhead War Memorial, St Albans Church, , Hindhead, Surrey
P Named on memorial, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
He was known later in life as Massy-Wheeler. At one time their was a headstone, but with the Iran-Iraq war of the 80’s, and the Iraq invasion and anti British feeling, there is only a slim chance the stone has survived
VC Held By
Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex
