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Personal info

Full name
THOMAS, Harold Otto
Date of birth
17 September 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Milltown, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Hometown
Middlesex County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32270536
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
18th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized),
14th Cavalry Group
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
19 December 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Poteau, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Robert H. Thomas (father)
Katherine Thomas (mother)
Miriam Thomas (sister)
Kathleen E. Thomas (sister)

More information

Pfc Harold O. Thomas was employed by the Mack Manufacturing Company in New Brunswick.

He enlisted on 25 June 1942 at Fort Dix, New York. He received training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and arrived in England in August 1944 and later was moved to the European Theater of Operations.

He was officially declared death one day and one year after he went missing in action.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Astrid van Erp, The Central New Jersey Home News 2 January 1946