Ulysses John Lincoln “Linc” Peoples Jr. was born on December 26, 1900, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Ulysses J. Lincoln Peoples and Emma Dorothy Utz Peoples. He was married to Eliza Wardlaw Peoples. He was a 1923 West Point graduate from Pittsburgh, served as an ordnance officer after early postings in field artillery. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, taught at West Point, and held various ordnance commands before being sent to the Philippines in 1941 as Corps Ordnance Officer under General Wainwright.

Captured after the fall of Bataan, he endured imprisonment at PW Camp #1 in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. In December 1944, after transfer from Cabanatuan, Lt. Col. Ulysses J. L. Peoples, Jr. and fourteen other sick American POWs were selected at San Fernando, Pampanga, under the pretense of being sent for hospitalization. Instead, they were taken to a cemetery and brutally executed by bayonet and decapitation.

LTC Peoples's name is memorialized in the Tablets of the Missing in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines. He also has a cenotaph in the Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.

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