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LT Herbert W. Windeler Remembrance Plaque - Grenadier Guards

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Details:

Inside the church on the right side wall, next to other similiar plaques.

Plaque

Copper 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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