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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