Stories of the Fallen    -    Alex Tunilo 

    Rochester, New York

 Alex Tunilo served in World War 1 in the United States Army.  The enlistment was in April 1918. The service was completed October 1918.        

 Alex Tunilo was born in Bendry, Miraslawiec, Lithuania in 1890.  He immigrated in 1910 and was employed as a farm hand at the James Dorau Farm in Rush, NY. His next of kin was his brother “Mike” who immigrated in 1907 and was working the coal mines in Scrantom, PA. 

Alex entered the service at Rochester, NY, April 2, 1918, at the age of 27 years. As a Private, he was assigned to 11th Company, 153rd Depot Brigade; transferred to Company C, 310th Infantry, May 7, 1918; and embarked overseas, May 19, 1918. Alex engaged in action at Thiaucourt and Madounee near Champigneulle. On October 20, 1918, US Army Private Alex Tunilo was killed in action, at Bois des Loges. He is buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France.

 — Referenced from World War Service Record of Rochester and Monroe County New York, Volume 1, Those Who Died for Us, Published by the City of Rochester, 1924, Page 416.