Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: When Edward Charles Wheeler was born on 13 March 1885, in Canning Town, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward John Wheeler, was 41 and his mother, Jane Lea, was 21. He married Florence Maud Gilling on 27 February 1908, in Grays, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Blenheim, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1914. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1914, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as labourer in Blenheim, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 October 1968, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 