Tuley Military Heroes
World
War II
MIA
Corporal Melvin Oscar Tuley, USMC
- missing since 19 December 1941, from Houston, Texas,
Purple Heart posthumously awarded 6 Jan 1966
POW
Sergeant John A. Tuley, M
Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Division, captured 7 May 1942 in The
Philippines. Left
Mainila on July 1, 1944, on the
Canadian
Inventer II (a caputred transport ship) for the Omine
Machi Fukuoka #5 camp in Japan.
Sgt Tuley was liberated on 25 Oct 1945 at the Fukuoka POW
Camp #1 - Kashii (Pine Tree Camp) Kyushu Island.
Other
Purple Heart reicpients
Private Frank Tuley, Company D -
84th Chemical Battalion, from East Patterson, New Jersey,
fatally wounded in Italy
August 1944
Others
who served
Chester Tuley, American Volunteer
Group (Flying Tigers), 1941-1942.
Jim (Bud) Tuley, Commanding Officer, 39th
Troop Carrier Squadron, World War II
Lt Commander Virgil C. Tuley, United States Navy.
World
War I
PFC Homer A. Tuley.
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Homer A. Tuley, Private
First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism while serving with
377th Ambulance Company, 310th Sanitary Train, 339th Infantry
(Attached), 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia), in action near
Bolshieozerke, Russia, April 2, 1919. Private First Class Tuley went
forward some 200 yards in front of our lines into an area swept by
artillery and machine-gun fire to assist in bringing a wounded man to a
place of safety.
* General Orders No. 19, War Department, 1920
Born: at Dallas, Texas
Home Town: Detroit, Michigan
Civil
War
Corporal
George W. Tuley, Co. H,
42nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He died on 14 Aug 1864 in
Andersonville Prison (POW Camp), Macon, Georgia. He was buried in
Andersonville Prison (POW Camp), Macon, Georgia and is buried in the
National Cemetery, grave number 4733.
Private William R. Tuley, Co. H, 42nd Indiana Volunteer
Infantry. He died on 22 Aug 1864 in Andersonville Prison (POW Camp),
Macon, Georgia and is buried in the National Cemetery, grave number
6509.
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