| Rank | Major |
| Unit # | U.S. Army Medical Service |
George graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He established a practice in Flint, Michigan, specializing in children’s diseases. George was a Canadian citizen.
He enlisted in the US Medical Corp in July 1942. He had been serving in the southwest Pacific since January 1943.
The WN (unknown source) reported that Major Anthony was on leave to visit his wife and family for the first time in three years. He had been oberving the value of blood plasma in treating wounds close to battle-field in the South Pacific. His medical training was helping him in battle.
George had returned to the United States as an attending physician to a large number of men wounded in the fight at Iwo Jima.
The Wallaceburg News reported that in July of 1944, his wife Rose (nee Burgess,) of Wallaceburg who was staying with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Burgess of Wallaceburg, received a long distance call from Hon. Henry L. Stimson, US Secretary of War. At the time, she was entertaining some friends. The message from Secretary Stimson was to inform her that her husband was promoted to the rank of Major. He went on to say, “Had it not been for your husband, 152 men would never have returned home to their families. Many men have been awarded the Purple Heart were not half so deserving of it as Major Anthony was.”
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