Missing information?
Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?
Submit- Full
name
WERTZ, Eldore W - Date of
birth
1919 -
Age
unknown -
Place of birth
Kansas -
Hometown
Monroe County, Wisconsin
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
36231899 -
Rank
Corporal -
Function
Tank Driver -
Unit
35th Tank Battalion,
4th Armored Division
-
Awards
Purple Heart
Death
-
Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
30 September 1944 - Place of
death
In the vicinity of Arracourt, France
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Benjamin Wertz (father)
Amanda D. (Rodenberg) Wertz (mother)
Benjamin D. Wertz (brother)
Kenneth D. Wertz (brother)
Marcella M. Wertz (sister)
Maynard D. Wertz (brother)
More information
Cpl Eldore W. Wertz enlisted at Fort Sheridan, Illinois on 14 January 1942.He was killed when his tank was knocked out and caught fire.
His brothers served with the U.S. Marines or the U.S. Navy in the Pacific at the time of his death.
Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, The La Crosse Tribune - 9 September 1945, Wisconsin State Journal - 19 October 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Frogman