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Personal info

Full name
THODAY, Franklin Hitchner
Date of birth
12 December 1910
Age
33
Place of birth
Salem County, New Jersey
Hometown
Salem, Salem County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
20226256
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
114th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 November 1944
Place of death
Avricourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 5 26

Immediate family

Members
Samuel S. Thoday (father)
Ada (Davis) Thoday (mother)
John R. Thoday (brother)
Caroline S. Thoday (sister)
Walter D. Thoday (brother)
Mary Thoday (sister)
Edward K. Thoday (brother)
Matilda S. Thoday (sister)
Nellie (Kosteczko) Thoday (wife)
Franklin H. Thoday Jr. (son)
Evelyn Thoday (daughter)
Alice Thoday (daughter)

More information

Sgt Franklin H. Thoday joined the National Guard in Salem, New Jersey on 16 September 1940.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his shoulder.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Foster Henson Morrisey Evan Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / New Jersey Marriage Index, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – Poughkeepsie Journal 23 December 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / Eric Jawurek / Anonymous