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Personal info

Full name
SMITH, Thomas Franklin
Date of birth
13 March 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Vollmer, Lewis County, Idaho
Hometown
Barton, Tioga County, New York

Military service

Service number
32949205
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 October 1944
Place of death
Échavanne, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 43 14

Immediate family

Members
Lawrence F. Smith (father)
Lavernia E. (Cole) Smith (mother)
Lawrence C. Smith (brother)
Angie F. (Johnson) Smith (wife)

More information

Pvt Thomas F. Smith graduated from the Waverly Senior High School and was employed at the Randolph Service station and the Ingersoll-Rand plant before he enlisted in Binghamton, New York on 30 December 1943. he was sent overseas in June 1944.

He died from artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Smith Burgess Tree, www.findagrave.com – Cathy 

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy