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Personal info

Full name
WHEELER, Edwin Morington
Date of birth
2 June 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Hopewell, Ontario County, New York
Hometown
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York

Military service

Service number
42088337
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 January 1945
Place of death
South of Bliesbruck, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 11 18

Immediate family

Members
Claude M. Wheeler (father)
Dora M. (Joyce) Wheeler (mother)
Roland M. Wheeler (brother)
Loretta M. Wheeler (sister)
Claude Wheeler (brother)
Clarence J. Wheeler (brother)
Thelma M. Wheeler (sister)
Marjory M. (Harris) Wheeler (wife)
Edwin M. Wheeler (son)
James F. Wheeler (son)
Shirley Wheeler (daughter)
Beverly C. Wheeler (daughter)
Donna Wheeler (daughter)
Barbara Wheeler (daughter)

More information

Pfc Edwin M. Wheeler was a truck driver with the Canandaigua Lake Ice Company before he enlisted at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 13 March 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire to the head.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Tanyce Updyke Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – Democrat and Chronicle 13 February 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy