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Personal info

Full name
CLARK, Frederick Langdon
Date of birth
2 October 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida
Hometown
Richland County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35298137
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
53rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Wolfershausen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
H 13 21

Immediate family

Members
Carl E. Cark (father)
Fern (Enlow) Clark (mother)
Howard E. Poole (half-brother)

More information

Pfc Clark entered the service in January 1944, six months before he received his diploma from Mansfield High School. He received training at Fort Eustis in Texas, Camp Stewart in Georgia, Fort Bliss and Camp Maxey in Texas and Fort Meade in Maryland.

His father died in 1938 afther which his mother was married to James Leroy Poole.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, After action report 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion, www.newspapers.com - Mansfield News-Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Mansfield Public Library