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Personal info

Full name
OXFORD, Eschol
Date of birth
15 June 1919
Age
26
Place of birth
Hardin, Calhoun County, Illinois
Hometown
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36985466
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
6 January 1946
Place of death
Gössweinstein, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 16 58

Immediate family

Members
Armstead D. Oxford (father)
Susan A. (Winters) Oxford (mother)
Ida M. Oxford (sister)
Freeman E. Oxford (brother)
Phoebe Oxford (sister)
Hughey Oxford (brother)
Rerey H. Oxford (brother)
Ada M. Oxford (sister)
Odra Oxford (sister)
Audry Oxford (sister)
Belva Oxford (sister)
Augusta Oxford (brother)
Esdon Oxford (twin-brother)
Geneva (Mott) Oxford (wife)
Charles T. Oxford (son)
Wayne D. Oxford (son)

More information

Pfc Eschol Oxford worked for the Inland Steel Company before he enlisted.

He died on the early morning of 7 January 1946 in his quarters at Gössweinstein, Germany as a result of an accidental gunshot wound.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / McCollum Oldham Tree, www.findagrave.com – Albert Ledoux, www.newspapers.com – Hardin County Independent 24 January 1946 / 7 March 1946

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Denise Kellam, www.ancestry.com - Ronda Cannon