Thomas Edgar Mallory died all alone with no survivors in the V.A. Hospital in Dublin on November 16, 1967 at the age of ninety-two. Staff Sergeant, Mallory, perhaps one of the oldest prisoners on the Bataan Death March at the age of sixty-eight, was one of those rare men, who served in the Spanish American War, World War I, and World II. Although no one in his immediately family was around, Mallory did survive one of the most horrible events in American history. Mallory was captured by the Japanese Army in April 1942. He and thousands of others suffered the horrendous Bataan Death March and interment in a P.O.W. camp until the end of the war. Mallory, who served in the Army of for 21 years, remained in the Phillipines after his retirement, Thomas Mallory. A son William Mallory and Mary Ann Tolbert, was born on New Year’s Day in 1974 in Upson County, Georgia. He was buried in Buena Vista, Georgia. Brunswick News, 11.18.1967. Find a Grave
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