John P. Tinneny (1916-1988) was the son
of James Tinneny of Greenock, Scotland and Philadelphia and
Gertrude A. Spence. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and
dropped out of Roxborough High School to join the Marines in
September 1934. After completing basic training at Paris
Island, he was assigned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a military
policeman until the spring of 1935 at which time he shipped out to
China. He spent the next several years assigned for a brief
time in Shanghai then with the mounted Marine Guard at the U. S.
Embassey in Peiping. When the Marines pulled out of China he
was transferred to the Philippine Islands where he was stationed at
Cavite until his return to the States at the end of his four year
enlistment.
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