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Personal info

Full name
SEELY, Thomas R
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
15013091
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
20 September 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 15 81

Immediate family

Members
Bert Seely (father)
Grace Seely (mother)
Margaret L. Seely (sister)
Lloyd L. Seely (brother)
William H. Seely (brother)

More information

Pfc Thomas R. Seely worked in a factory for bakery products before hejoined the Regular Army at Fort Hayes, Ohio on 25 September 1940.

At the time of his death, the 10th Infantry Regiment was engaged in the fighting in the vicinity of Pournoy-la-Chétive, France.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

His brother William served with the U.S. Navy and was declared buried at sea on 5 April 1944. He is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at East Coast Memorial, New York

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1920 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil 1942-1949 / Kathy Douglas Family Tree, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

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