of Honor by President Theodore Roosevelt on the 22nd of November, 1906. After returning from the Philippines Major Shiels retired from military service and resumed his civilian life as a surgeon. Interwar Years Now known as "The Fighting Doctor," Dr. Shiels returned to civilian life as a surgeon and was appointed Professor of Surgery of Gunshot Wounds and Military Medicine at Fordham University in New York City. He was considered an expert at legal medicine, and was an expert witness at the murder trial of Harry W. Thaw (who had murdered architect Stanford White in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden), supporting the first use of the temporary insanity defense. He also testified as an expert witness in the Fatty Arbuckle murder trial, in that case offering his opinion on the medical condition afflicting the victim prior to her murder. Dr. Shiels was a prolific contributor to medical journals, writing on wide ranging subjects including the nature of Colic, the proper teaching of anatomy, the role of the physician as an expert witness, and closure of surgical wounds. World War I At the outset of WWI, Dr. Shiels volunteered again for service, and was re-commissioned as a Major. He received a special order to serve in Major General Pershing’s forces in France, where he was assigned to the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters. His actions on the 27th through the 30th of September, 1918, earned him the French Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star. Post military service George was discharged in October 1919 and went on to become the professor of clinical surgery at the University of California San Francisco and at Fordham University of New York. He married twice, first to Emily, and last to Grace (who had been married twice before with one child), and had no children with either wife. The Honolulu-Star Bulletin 5 December 1930 printed a short entry about Dr. Shiels embarking on "a trip to the orient" in which he is referred to as "Colonel" although records have not yet been found corroborating a promotion. The same article states that Dr. Shiels "is traveling to recuperate from being gassed in the World War." Again this has not yet been corroborated independently, and there is no record of a Purple Heart Medal. George Franklin Shiels died on the 26th of October, 1943, at the age of 80 and he is buried with Grace