Major Ben Wheeler was a Canadian doctor in the British Army[clarification needed] stationed in Singapore in 1942 when British forces unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese on February 15, 1942. He was imprisoned by the Japanese in Singapore and later moved to the Japanese colony of Formosa (now Taiwan) with other British prisoners of war (POWs). He was a camp doctor in each camp in which he was imprisoned. He survived the war and settled in Edgerton, Alberta, Canada.