Career
Whiteley was commissioned into the Royal Artillery during the First World War, ending the war as a Lieutenant. In 1926 he transferred to the Life Guards, retiring in 1928 and joining the 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) as a Captain. He was promoted Major in 1932.
When World World War II broke out, Whiteley resumed military service.
He was active at Dunkirk, and died in 1943, aged 45, when he was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar, along with the Conservative Member of Parliament Victor Cazalet and General Władysław Sikorski, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile.
