Served in the Canadian Ary; French Foreign Legion and the US Army in WW1. He was a surgeon who train at the University of Buffalo and was from New Hampshire. He

When David Everett Wheeler was born on November 25, 1872, his father, Everett, was 32 and his mother, Lydia, was 32. He married Mabel Blanche Whitney on June 10, 1898, in Boston, Massachusetts. They had one child during their marriage. Wheeler came to Europe during the first winter of the war as a Red Cross worker, being a doctor by profession. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion as a soldier in February, 1915. He served a the Regimental Surgeon. In the Champagne fighting In September of that year he was painfully wounded in the right leg. After the charging French had passed beyond him he tried to crawl back to the rear, but, finding many wounded and suffering men about him, he stopped and attended them. For this he was awarded the French War Cross. After leaving the hospital he secured his discharge from the Foreign Legion and joined the Canadian army, bring given the rank of Captain. When the United States entered the war, he was transferred to the American forces and was commissioned Major. He was killed during the Allied counter-offensive while attending the wounded under fire on July 18, 1918. He is now buried in Aisne-Marne American Cem., Belleau, France. His name is inscribed on the Buzancy monument as LT D R WHEELER. Also, a plaque dedicated for him is located in Governors Island Memorial Plaques, Governors Island, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.

He is also remembered on the American Volunteer Monument in Paris.


David E. Wheeler, of Buffalo, NY, became one of Edmond Genet's closest friends. Wheeler was a surgeon, a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University. He enlisted in the 3d Marching Regiment in 1915 and during the Champagne battle was awarded the Croix de Guerre when, wounded himself, he carried another wounded man from the battlefield under enemy fire. He was invalided from the Legion but later joined a Canadian regiment as battalion surgeon and returned to France. He later received permission to join the American army and became a surgeon in the american 1st Division. While serving with this unit, he died of wounds received in combat on July 18, 1918. ~~ Walt Brown Jr. (ed), An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981).

MAJ. D. E. WHEELER KILLED Buffalo Doctor Served with French, Canadans, and Americans PARIS, Aug 13.--- Major David E. Wheeler of Buffalo, NY, was killed recently in the allied counter-offensive when attending the wounded under fire.
Major Wheeler came to Europe the first Winter of the war as a Red Cross worker, being a doctor by profession. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion as a soldier on Feb 7, 1915. In the Champagne fighting on Sept 28, 1915, Major Wheeler was wounded in the right leg. After the charging French had passed beyond him he tried to crawl back to the rear, but, finding many wounded and suffering men around him, he stopped and attended them. For this he received the French War Cross.
After leaving the hospital he procured his discharge from the Foreign Legion and joined the Canadian Army, receiving the rank of Captain. When the United States entered the war he was transferred to the American forces and was commissioned Major. He served as regimental surgeon in Lorraine and at Cantigny and Chateau-Thierry.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com, www.abmc.gov, The Gazette, Montreal, Canada. Aug 14, 1918.