Taliaferro County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tuggle, Granby Overton July 23, 1953
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The Augusta Chronicle, Friday July 31, 1953

Camp Gordon honor guard pays
Final tribute to Ga. soldier 
Who made Bataan “Death March”

   M/Sgt. Granby O. Tuggle, a survivor of the Bataan Death March in the 
Philippines, and first sergeant of the Medical Detachment at Camp Gordon from 
May 1950 until February of this year, received his final military tribute last 
week.  
   The soldier of 15 years service, who had helped many to carry through on the 
infamous Death March died last week at the U.S. Army hospital after a heart 
attack.  An honor guard from Gordon’s Headquarters Detachment, ASU 3441, fired 
over his grave at the Crawfordville, Ga. cemetery.  
   A Gordon soldier who met Sergeant Tuggle during the Battle of Bataan and saw 
him many times during the march from peninsula to Camp O’Donnell on Luzon, 
remembered the way he aided the troops.  
   “Although sick himself on the march, Sergeant Tuggle carried others along,” 
said Sgt. William K. Smith Jr., stationed with the Medical Holding Detachment 
at the U.S. Army hospital. 
   He was successful in begging medicine from the Japs and would contact 
guerrilla forces when he was sent on woodchopping details.  This action brought 
extra medicines into the compound and also aroused the concern of the enemy, 
who questioned him many times.”  
   The Japanese later sent Sergeant Tuggle to Japan, where he was imprisoned 
until the end of the war.  




Additional Comments:
Granby Overton Tuggle was born January 20, 1912, Greene Co., GA, died July 23, 
1953, son of Granby Hillyer Tuggle, Jr., and Annie Mae Rhodes.  He was married 
January 16, 1946, Taliaferro Co., to Alma Lois Sherrer.
SOURCES:  Census records and Taliaferro Co. Marriage Book D; Georgia Death 
Index; Information from Glover R. Bailie, Jr.



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