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SHARITZ, Thorold Joseph Brown Jr - Date of
birth
12 April 1911 -
Age
33 - Place of
birth
Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia -
Hometown
Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O-299691 -
Rank
First Lieutenant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
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Awards
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
5 April 1945 - Place of
death
Nuremberg, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| K | 24 | 9 |
Immediate family
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Members
Thorold J.B. Sharitz Sr. (father)
Minnie A. (Kegly) Sharitz (mother)
Rupert O. Sharitz (brother)
Frieda E. Sharitz (sister)
Dorothy K. Sharitz (sister)
Josephine E. (McDonald) Sharitz (wife)
Charles J. Sharitz (son)
Dorothy V. Sharitz (daughter)
More information
1st Lt Thorold J.B. Sharitz Jr. attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was employed at the Shen County School Board.He was taken prisoner in the vicinity of Schlausenbach, Germany on 16 December 1944 and was imprisoned at Stalag 13-D in the vicinity of Nuremberg, Germany.
During a raid on the Nuremberg railroad yard on 5 April 1945, performed by the U.S. Army Air Force, a column of American officers was hit with 29 men killed.
Lt Sharitz is remembered in the Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery in Wytheville, Virginia.
Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Choate Faily Tree / Virginia Birth Records, http://www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Photo source: www.indianamilitary.org, www.ancestry.com - SWVA