MAJ George A. Lytle

1871 – 1924

USAR Quartermaster Corps.

WWI

George A. Lytle was born in Palatine, on October 24,1871, to Richard and Matilda (Harlow) Lytle.

On June 7, 1899, he married Lydia Robertson in Barrington; they raised four children.

He was employed as a Government meat inspector in Chicago, Indiana, and New York, before World War I, were he served in the Headquarters Quartermaster Corps as a Veterinarian from 1916 through 1920.

Veterinarians had little input in planning for war because they were a small group of staff officers spread across many organizations, without any Army-wide standard procedures, plans, or organization. The upper echelons of the army failed to make veterinary care more efficient until near the end of the war. The advice and requests of veterinarians were routinely ignored until the Veterinary Corps was finally recognized as a medical branch of the service in the summer of 1918. 

Major George Lytle died February 15, 1924, and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution