Gaylord J. Toole

US Army history Fifth Infantry Division
World War I & II, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam & Panama
The Society of the Fifth Division, US Army, Europe
Oldest divisional organization with continuous service to the Czech
Republic since 1945

 


Military Service
US Army
Memorial Activity Specialist
1969-1975

1st Bde. 5th Infantry Division, (Mech.) 1969-1970
Charlie Company 75th Support Battalion
Graves Registration
Quang Tri, RVN
1969-1970



277th Supply & Service Battalion
148th Graves Registration Company

1972

Camp Horn, Da Nang


US Army Mortuary
305th Supply & Service Company
8th US Army

Shoulder Sleeve Insignia

1973-1975

Seal of the Department of the Treasury

Department of Treasury
US customs
Yongsan, Korea
Organizations
Society of the 5th Division, US Army
American Legion

Veterans of Foreign wars of the United States
The Czechoslovakia Legion - Czech Veteran Association

G. Jerry Toole, Southern breed, cornbread fed, born a twin, third generation grandson of the confederate, grand father, James Ellie Toole, born in 1836 in South Carolina, a soldier with the Confederate States of America (CSA), 55th Georgia Infantry, Company E, 29th Georgia Cavalry, and B Co. 29th Georgia Cavalry, and was wounded in his left hand in Taylor county Florida during the war while looking for deserters.

 

Ellie Moses Toole, father of G. Jerry Toole was born February 27, 1873 in (Early County), Georgia, Bible carrying, God fearing, fiddle playing, shot gun toting, Deputy US Marshal, well known for his use of his blood hounds in tracking down wanted criminals.

G. Jerry Toole, veteran of Vietnam, singer and writer, whose long family history in music as made it possible to give you some experience of American country music with his favorite sounds of Nashville. Some songs go back to the early days of Country Music and some are of the latest country hits as played on your local Country Radio Station. The Toole family is located all over the southern portion of the United States most of them were farmers and plantation owners who after the Civil war, many of them settled in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

More information family website and family tree.

 

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