Sergeant Gordon Andrew Wiley

Canadian Army Medical Corps no. 155

Gordon Wiley worked as an Iron Machinist Helper prior to enlisting with the CAMC on 17 February 1915. He arrived in France on 8 April 1916 and was stationed at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in Boulogne. Wiley moved up the ranks from Private to Corporal on 7 June 1916, to Lance Corporal on 18 August 1916 and finally to Sergeant on 12 November 1917. The No. 3 Stationary Hospital relocated to a château in Doullen, France, where Wiley was killed while the facility was caught in an aerial bombardment on 30 May 1918. He was one of sixteen orderlies, three nurses, two surgeons, and four patients killed during the incident.

He is commemorated on page 522 of the First World War Book of Remembrance (Memorial Chamber, Peace Tower, Parliament Hill).

Commemorated on: family grave, Woodland Cemetery, London, ON.

Grave: Bagneux British Cemetery, France.

The Wiley Family Grave, London, ON
Photographed by Grace Evers, 2017.