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Personal info

Full name
SANDERCOCK, Theophilus Guy
Date of birth
31 March 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Fort Laramie, Goshen County, Wyoming
Hometown
Fort Laramie, Goshen County, Wyoming

Military service

Service number
37087044
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
3rd Battalion,
327th Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
21 December 1945
Place of death
Marvie, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Charles M. Sandercock (father)
Ada M. Sandercock (mother)
Ada M. Sandercock (sister)
Florence Sandercock (sister)
Ruth Sandercock (sister)
Russell Sandercock (brother)
Edith Sandercock (sister)
Charles M. Sandercock (brother)

More information

On 20 December 1944, three men from G Company were assigned to outpost duty and set up their light machine gun in a hedgerow about 400 yards from the town of Marvie, Belgium. They were attacked by German infantry supported by tanks and halftracks, and after putting up a strong defense were overrun.
Eyewitnesses saw a German tank drive over the position occupied by Pfc Parsons, Pfc Lemuel R. Campbell and Sgt Theophilus G. Sandercock. Parsons was last seen only six feet from the charging German tank. The German attack was eventually repulsed and a search made of the area. A wrecked machine gun and several helmets were found in the area, but no identifiable remains of Sandercock, Campbell, or Parsons.
Their comrades hoped the three men might have been captured, but none were ever reported as prisoners of war.

Sgt Sandercock was officially declared dead one day and one year after he was reported missing in action.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com, www.ww2-airborne.us, 1940 Census

Photo source: FOHF, www.findagrave.com - Connie Sims