Name:
Preston Eddy Tupper
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
Unit:
US Army Air Service
Date of Death:
1918-11-10
State:
Illinois
Cemetery:
St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France
Plot:
A
Row:
27
Grave:
35
Decoration:
Comments:
Preston Eddy Tupper was born on May 12, 1893, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the son of Silas Royal Tupper and Anna Russell Eddy Tupper.
Preston served in the US Air Service as a Second Lieutenant during World War I. He was killed in an airplane accident in France on November 10, 1918, and is now buried in the St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France. He has a cenotaph located in the Forest Home Cemetery in Wisconsin. 2Lt Tupper was one of the 171 American servicemen who trained at the Third Aviation Instruction Center in France and died between 1917-1919.