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Personal info

Full name
BOCZ, Rudolph Carl
Date of birth
22 November 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York
Hometown
Islip, Suffolk County, New York

Military service

Service number
32116508
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
20th Armored Infantry Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 March 1945
Place of death
Trier, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 16 14

Immediate family

Members
Ludwig C. Bocz (father)
Antonia Bocz (mother)
Sophia Bocz (sister)
Norbert F. Bocz (brother)
Leona (Glauser) Bocz (wife)
Jeanette Bocz (daughter)

More information

S/Sgt Rudolph C. Bocz graduated from Islip High School in 1936 and attended college for two years. He was employed at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.

He enlisted in Jamaica, New York on 28 April 1941.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Toni Bocz Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Islip town’s WWII Effort / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.10tharmored.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery / Howard A. Sutherland