LT Herbert Wheelwright Windeler Cenotaph - Grenadier Guards
Details:
Panel 2 of the Walls of the Missing.
CenotaphAn inscription on the Wall of the Missing.
LT Herbert W. Windeler was the son of an American parent from Massachusetts. He served in the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in the British Army. He fell during the Battle of Cambrai at Bourlon Wood on November 27, 1917; a private memorial remembers him there. His body was never recovered. He fell not far from another American on the same day, 2LT Charles F. Hartley of the Coldstream Guards. See Site Bourlon Wood for more on Windeler's private memorial.
Source of Information and photos: The Western Front Assocation Website
Monument Text:
GRENADIER GUARDS
LIEUTENANT
Windeler H.W.
Commemorates:
People:
Herbert Wheelwright 'John' Windeler
Units:
British Army
Coldstream Guards
Grenadier Guards
Wars:
WWI
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