Early Life
Wheeler was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1923, where his father was working for the British Council. The family later moved to Hamburg where his father was employed by a shipping company. Educated at the Cranbrook School in Kent, his first job was as an errand boy at the Daily Sketch newspaper at the age of 17. He enlisted in the Royal Marines in 1941, rising to the rank of Captain. As part of a secret naval intelligence unit assembled by Ian Fleming - 30 Assault Unit, he participated in the Normandy Landings as second-in-command to Patrick Dalzel-Job.
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