Thomas Brabson Drinnen
Rank: Captain
Branch: Army Medical Corps
UT Major/Affiliation: UT Liberal Arts 1929, Medical College 1933
Hometown: Knox County, TN
- May 11, 1909 – Feb. 24, 1944
- Knox County, Tennessee
- Army Medical Corps Captain
- UT Liberal Arts 1929, Medical College 1933
- Knoxville Physician
- Death caused by an accident of carbon monoxide gas.
- He was a Doctor serving in the U. S. Army Medical Corp during WWII. He was stationed in England when he was killed due to “carbon monoxide poisoning” in the home where he was billeted. His body was returned to Tennessee following the end of the war.
- Buried at Asbury Cemetery in Knox County, Tennessee
Thomas Brabson Drinnen (May 11, 1909 – Feb. 24, 1944) was from Knox County, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee’s College of Liberal Arts in the Class of 1929 and graduated from its medical college in 1933. He practiced medicine in Knoxville as a physician for nine years before he enlisted in the Army Medical Corps as a captain when the United States entered the war. Captain Drinnen was stationed in England when he died from complications resulting from carbon monoxide poisoning that occurred in the facility that he was billeted in. He is buried at Asbury Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.
