"I regret to inform you that it is official that Major Thomas E. Wyatt, Army Medical Corps, died August 18th from a heart attack."

Major Thomas E. Wyatt became a member of the Marshfield Clinic in 1940 and left later that same year for military service with the Army Medical Corps. He served until his death in 1945.

Wyatt, an associate surgeon with the Marshfield Clinic, was the first of its staff to enter the armed forces in World War II. He left as a member of the medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army in October 1940, and was based at Camp Livingston, La. until leaving for overseas service in January, 1942.

He was a surgeon with the first task force to land in Northern Ireland in 1942 and was later with advance medical units in Normandy, France, Belgium Holland and Germany, with the first and ninth U.S. armies. He was promoted to the rank of Major in January 1944 while serving in a hospital in Belfast, Ireland.

While in service, he attended the specialist setouts of neurosurgery in Oxford, maxillo-facial surgery in East Grinstead and chest surgery in London. He returned to the United States after 39 months in the European Theater of Operations and was stationed at Welch Convalescent Hospital, Daytona Beach, Florida.

The son of Mrs. Georgia Wyatt, was born in Kentucky but lived in Tennessee for most of his life. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he received his bachelors degree in 1931. He graduated from the school as a doctor of medicine. He married First Lt. Pauline M. Ciola of the Army Nurse Corps, at Fort Pierce, Florida, on June 18th 1945. Lt. Pauline Ciola of the Army Nurse Corps, returned to the United States after 29 months of service in the southwest pacific and was stationed at the Welch Convalescent Hospital.

Military funeral rites were conducted at sunset.

Written By: Nick Erickson