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Personal info

Full name
TYREE, Edward Glass
Date of birth
1915
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia
Hometown
Campbell County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
O-1031214
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 January 1945
Place of death
Near Longchamps, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
C 10 7

Immediate family

Members
Walter P. Tyree (father)
Mary C. (Glass) Tyree (mother)
Virginia C. Tyree (sister)
John B. Tyree (brother)
Nancy D. Tyree (sister)
Mary P. Tyree (sister)
Frances Tyree (sister)
Almira M. (Macleod) Tyree (wife)
Edward C. G. Tyree (son)
Walter P. Tyree (son)

More information

1st Lt Edward G. Tyree graduated from E.C. Glass High School in 1932 and studied at Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. He was employed at the Export Leaf Tobacco Company.

He enlisted in Roanoke, Virginia on 18 June 1942.

He was wounded when he jumped in the Netherlands and returned to duty after treatment in a hospital in England. For this wound he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time.

Lt Tyree was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Sources of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920 Census / Virginia, Marriage Records, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Glass High School - 1932, The News and Advance - 23 January 1945, Tyree Family - courtesy of Debbie Holloman