TUCKER, Cassell
Source: Muncie Star Press 5 July
1945 Thu p 6
When Dr. Cassell Tucker died
Greencastle, Indiana lost one of the truly unsung heroes of two wars. When WWI
broke out in Europe in 1914, Dr. Tucker was just finishing his medical
education at Harvard University, he promptly enlisted in the British Medical
Corps and saw service on the western front for two years. He was decorated with
the highest awards given by the British government for his courageous service
at the front. When the US entered the war Dr. Tucker transferred to the
American Medical Corps, continuing to serve in the front line. His own country
gave him distinguished service medals. But nobody around Greencastle ever heard
a word of all this from Dr. Tucker. His
father had been the leading physician of the Greencastle community for many
years and Dr. Tucker returned to his home town to become friend and physician
to the entire community. He literally worked himself to death. Despite a bad
heart condition which developed as a result of overwork he continued with the
same sort of quiet courage which had won him the highest awards during WWI. For
the last four years he has gone day and night in ministering to the sick of his
community. He never spared himself. He was a great physician and a noble man.
Literally he laid down his life for his fellow men. And greater nobility of
character hath no man than this – kbz
Note: His tombstone in Forest Hill,
Greencastle reads:
Capt. Med. Corps WWI
Capt. Med. Corps WWI
Feb 21, 1891 – June 6, 1945
PH Br. Mil Cross
(He was the son of Dr. William
Walter Tucker 25 Aug 1866 – 16 March 1928 also buried Forest Hill) – he was in
the Allopathic practice, graduate of Miami Medical College Cincinnati son of
Thomas and Mary Burcham Tucker