Max Wheeler

Geoffrey Maxwell Wheeler (21 May 1912 – 17 June 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He played only one VFL game, against Melbourne.

Max Wheeler
Personal information
Full name Geoffrey Maxwell Wheeler
Date of birth (1912-05-21)21 May 1912
Place of birth Coleraine, Victoria
Date of death 17 June 1941(1941-06-17) (aged 29)
Place of death Merdjayoun, French Lebanon
Original team(s) Ballarat Football Club
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1937 Hawthorn 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Herbert John Wheeler (1877–1947),[1][2] and Eliza Lousia Wheeler (1878–1975), née James, Geoffrey Maxwell Wheeler was born at Coleraine, Victoria on 21 May 1912. He married Margaret Isabel Lingham (1914) in 1937. They had three children: Maxine, Alan, and Mabel.

Military service

He enlisted in the Second AIF on 24 July 1940, and served in the 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.

Death

He was killed in action, at Merdjayoun, in French Lebanon, on 17 June 1941, serving with the Second AIF.[3]

See also
  • List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

Footnotes
  1. Deaths: Wheeler, The Argus, (Monday, 16 June 1947), p. 19.
  2. World War One Nominal Roll: Private Herbert John Wheeler (5636).
  3. In Memoriam: On Active Service: Wheeler, The Age, (Friday, 21 May 1943), p. 5; In Memoriam: Roll of Honour—On Active Service: Wheeler, The Argus, (Friday, 21 May 1943), p. 2.

Sources
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