A tight-knit community is rallying around the parents of a young boy who died just days before Christmas from an aggressive cancer.
William Wheeler, from Bundaberg, Queensland, lost his battle with neuroblastoma - a cancer that develops from nerve cells - on December 15.
The two-year-old boy had been fighting the cancer since he was just 11-months-old, never experiencing a birthday outside hospital.
William s mother Lauren Wheeler said her son was such an amazing little boy and he was brave until the very end .
In a Facebook post following William s death, Lauren noted it had been two weeks since we watched you take your last breath .