he appears in fragments
the Burma Star Memorial Fund
seeking to verify him
membership number W/789/56
Sgt VSM Wheeler, deceased
1st Gloucestershire Regiment, 1939-42, and then
9th Gurkha Rifles, Corps of Clerks, 1942-44
(captured, he worked the railway
found God inside a jungle)
there, in the local rag
his ordination, Durham, 1950
the Reverend Vere Stewart Manton Wheeler
to give him his full moniker
a few short lines in 'The Old Rencombian'
tells of his leaving, as Rector
returning to Burma
'at the request of the Bishop of Rangoon'
his gift to my father,17, The Book of Common Prayer (A&M)
Queens Coronation ed. 1953
and briefly in my 60's childhood
rare visitor, seen but twice
a gentle, bookish sort, with specs
in tweeds and brogues, wreathed in smoke
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