LT Herbert W. Windeler Remembrance Plaque - Grenadier Guards
Details:
Inside the church on the right side wall, next to other similiar plaques.
PlaqueCopper plaque mounted on wooden backboard. Incised border with leaf design. Badge of the Grenadier Guards at top.
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; a private memorial remembers him there. His body was never recovered. He is rememebred on the Wall of the Missing at the CWGC Cambrai Memorial.
See Site Bourlon Wood for more on Windeler's private memorial and Cambrai Memorial for his cenotaph.
Source of informaion and photos: https://www.iwm.org.uk
Monument Text:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HERBERT
WHEELWRIGHT WINDELER
LIEUT. GRENADIER GUARDS
ONLY SON OF
GEORGE HERBERT & LAURA WINDELER
BORN
BOSTON MASS. U.S.A. AUG 18 1897
KILLED
BOURLON WOOD NEAR CAMBRAI,
NOV. 27. 1917
AGED 20 YEARS.
"HE PLAYED THE MAN."
Commemorates:
People:
Herbert Wheelwright 'John' Windeler
Units:
British Army
Grenadier Guards
Wars:
WWI
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