Background
He was born in Chicago on 13 March 1889.
He was born in Chicago on 13 March 1889.
Shortly after the outbreak of the war, Weigle covered the resistance of the Belgian army against the German invaders. Weigle obtained permission from the Belgian government to photograph actual battle scenes for the first time. The result was "On Belgian Battlefields", one of the first war documentaries shown in the United States.
In 1915 and 1916, the Chicago Tribune again sent Weigle to Europe where he shot film on the Western and Eastern Front for "The German Side of the War." After the American entry in the war, Weigle joined the United States. Signal Corps, and filmed with the 35th Division in France.
He retired as a film correspondent shortly after the war. Edwin Weigle died in Deerfield, Illinois, on 1 August 1973.