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Personal info

Full name
EDWARDS, Thomas Israel
Date of birth
28 April 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Wyoming, Jones County, Iowa
Hometown
Jones County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37445428
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
31 August 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 8 46

Immediate family

Members
Ira Edwards (father)
Anna L. (Lamey) Edwards (mother)
Helen E. Edwards (sister)
Joseph L. Edwards (brother)
Mary C. Edwards (sister)
Virginia M. (Eganhouse) Edwards (wife)
Constance A. Edwards (daughter)
Thomas I. Edwards Jr. (son)

More information

Pvt Thomas I. Edwards from Davenport, where Tom was engaged in defense work until his induction into the army, November 27, 1942.
He received his first training at Fort Knox, Ky. In the armored division. After 15 months he was sent to Fort Meade, Md. And later to an embarkation station in New York, from where he was sent to England and later to France.
Tank ran out of gas in France, was ambushed by enemy.
He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Champigneul, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com, www.wwiimemorial.com – Constance Beh, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://iowajones.org/military/WWII_Casualties_Edwards_Thomas.htm
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy