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

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