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Personal info

Full name
CASPER, Thomas William
Date of birth
31 October 1905
Age
39
Place of birth
St. Louis, Missouri
Hometown
St. Louis, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37612729
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
633rd Quartermaster Laundry Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of the Julia Mine, Eygelshoven, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 6 18

Immediate family

Members
Thomas Casper (father)
Josephine (Fecher) Casper (mother)
Arthur Casper (brother)
Mildred Casper (sister)

More information

During a German arial attack on a messhall in the area of the Julia Mine, seventeen servicemen and an employee of the mine were killed.

T/5 Casper is commemorated on a Remembrance Plaque in Eygelshoven, the Netherlands.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, http://forum.12oclockhigh.net, www.newspapers.com - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, www.ancestry.com - 1920 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Des Philippet, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 21 December 1944, Ben Savelkoul