He served director of the center until 1968 and editor of its journal Central Asian Review, one of the main venues for Central Asian research. In Wheeler 1953 retired from government service and founded the Central Asian Research Centre in London. He retired from the Indian Army in 1949 as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1946 Wheeler was stationed at the British embassy Teheran, Iran (1946–1953), where he served as both the Press and Oriental Councillor until he returned to London in 1950. Wheeler spent the next decade and a half in India where he severed in the External Affairs Department, the Ministry of Information and General Staff Army Headquarters. In 1926 Wheeler served in Mashhad, Iran as the British Military Attaché and he was stationed in Iraq from 1928 to 1931. From 1919 to 1925 he was attached to General Staff as an intelligence officer covering India, Palestine and Malta. He initially served in the 1/ 6th Gurkha Rifles, and later in the 7th Rajput Regiment.
In 1918 he transferred to the Indian army.
Wheeler followed in the footsteps of his father, an infantry officer, and was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment in 1915 as a second lieutenant, and he reached the rank of captain before the end of the war. Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler was born in Bromley, Kent, England to Owen Wheeler, a Captain Army Reserve Officer, and his wife Eugenie. Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler CIE (22 June 1897 – 1 February 1990) was a British soldier and an historian of Central Asia. Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
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