WWI · Battle Death Record
Leon Wheeler
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army · Washington
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Leon Wheeler
- Entered the Service From
- Washington
- Rank
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Ordnance Department
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- September 9, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
- Grave
- Plot A, Row 2, Grave 12
Their story
First Lieutenant Leon Herbert Wheeler was a U.S. Air Service ordnance expert who worked on adapting Browning machine guns for aircraft and was returning to the United States after a classified assignment in France. He was killed on September 9, 1918, when the transport ship SS Missanabie was torpedoed by the German submarine UB-87 and sank off Kinsale, Ireland. He is buried at Brookwood American Cemetery near London.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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