Military Tuesday~Dr. Dewitt Talmadge Brock

 

1st  Lt., Medical Corps 

U. S. Army, WWI

Dr. Talmadge, who was a successful physician and surgeon at McComb, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army at the time of the World War I and was in the service one year, mainly at a military camp in Florida. 

“His practice here was interrupted by service in the Army during World War I, and resumed after the armistice. He moved to Jackson in 1932. Dr. Brock was a Mason, Shriner; past president of the Jackson Ex-change Club, past commander of Harry Harvey Post, the American Legion, McComb, and a member of First Baptist Church of this city.”  

Dr. Dewitt Talmadge Brock is a distant Cousin from my maternal lineage. 

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1. D. T. Brock Dies at 68; Rites Held obituary, Enterprise-Journal, McComb, Mississippi, 21 May 1958, Page 1, column 4.

2. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 8 August 2011); Memorial page for Dr. DeWitt Talmage Brock; (6 April 1890–20 May 1958); Find a Grave memorial # 13910850, Citing Hollywood Cemetery; McComb, Pike County, Mississippi, USA.

3. "Mississippi World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919," on-line digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 1 June 2023), Dewitt T Brock; citing Military Service World War I, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5555:61960; Unit: Camp Jos E Johnston Fla1917-1919.