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Personal info

Full name
SORGATZ, Frank Charles Jr
Date of birth
3 July 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Hometown
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35522111
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
G 12 32

Immediate family

Members
Frank C. Sorgatz (father)
Isabella (Ogilvie) Sorgatz (mother)
Hazel Sorgatz (sister)
Dorothy B. Sorgatz (sister)
Edna Sorgatz (sister)
Florence Sorgatz (sister)
Marie Sorgatz (wife)
Frank C. Sorgatz III (son)

More information

Frank C. Sorgatz Jr. graduated from East Technical High School in 1939 and had been employed at Cleveland Twist Drill Company.

He enlisted in Cleveland, Ohio on 16 November 1942.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – A Grateful American, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Ohio Birth Index, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - JoMarRo, The Plain Dealer - 19 December 1944, East Technical High School, 1939