Notes
Recovered 08.08.2023 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1531345/harold-frank-vernon-wheway/
SERGEANT HAROLD FRANK VERNON WHEWAY
Service Number: 925047
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 214 (F.M.S.) Sqdn
Date of Death 28 April 1942 Age 22 years old
Commemorated at RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Panel 96.
Son of Harold and Amy Wheway, of New Malden, Surrey; husband of T. K. Wheway, of Cardiff.
1922 : Harold Wheway is listed at Whitecliff, Queen's Road, Shanklin.
Education : Attended Sandown Secondary School.
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS
Saturday, April 24, 1943 Page 3
ISLAND ROLL OF HONOUR
PRESUMED KILLED
SERGT.-Navigator Harold F.V. Wheway, R.A.F.V.R., is posted to the R.A.F casualty list as previously reported missing, now presumed killed in action. He was missing from operations over Kiel on April 28th, 1942. He had taken part in over 30 operational flights over enemy and enemy occupied country, including the air attack on the German ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen, when his plane brought down an M.E. plane. He was 22, and joined the R.A.F.V.R. on the outbreak of war and served in a Wellington bomber. After the last flight the bodies of two of the crew were were washed ashore on the German coast two months later, but no news has come to hand of the other three members. Sergt. Wheway was a keen footballer in early days. He gave promise of a good career in the Board of Education, into which he passed from Sandown Secondary School. He was a son of Mr. H. Wheway, of New Malden, Surrey.