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Personal info

Full name
MOSHER, Elza
Date of birth
10 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois
Hometown
Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36905652
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
18th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 May 1945
Place of death
Karslbad, Czechoslovakia

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 1 27

Immediate family

Members
Elza Mosher (father)
Leona (Fisher) Mosher (mother)
Bernice Mosher (sister)
Eugene W. Mosher (brother)
Rushie E. Mosher (sister)
Dolores I. (Weckel) Mosher (wife)
Patricia A. Mosher (daughter)

More information

Pfc Elza Mosher graduated from Rock Island High School in 1941. He was a member of the football and the wrestling team and was an instructor in wrestling at the Y.M.C.A.

He was married to Dolores Weckel in February 1942 and was employed by C. U. Scott & Sons Inc.

He had been overseas since 3 January 1945

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees, www.newspapers.com - The Dispatch 22 May 1945

Photo source: Jac Engels, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree, www.newspapers.com - The Dispatch 22 May 1945