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Personal info

Full name
OLDHAM, Charles Curtis
Date of birth
25 February 1907
Age
37
Place of birth
Fulton, Bourbon County, Kansas
Hometown
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
38147991
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
137th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 October 1944
Place of death
Fossieux, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 33 27

Immediate family

Members
Robert E. Oldham (father)
Edna M. (Lloyd) Oldham (mother)
Alfred R. Oldham (brother)
Elsie P. Oldham (sister)
Ethel V. Oldham (sister)
Florence O. Oldham (sister)
Letha H. Oldham (sister)
Robert E. Oldham (brother)
Ruth E. Oldham (sister)
Beulah P. (Martin) Oldham (wife)
Sandra J. Oldham (daughter)
Sherry Oldham (daughter)

More information

Pfc Charles C. Oldham attended high school for one year and managed the Alvin Hotel for a number of years and started the Fryers Eat Shop at Admiral and Harvard about two years before he enlisted at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on 2 March 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Holt & Owens Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – Eric Ackerman / Don J, www.newspapers.com – Tulsa Herald All Church Press 10 November 1944

Photo source: www.newspapers.com – Tulsa Herald All Church Press 10 November 1944