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Personal info

Full name
KOTCHKOSKI, Caesar Raymond
Date of birth
16 November 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Essex County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42009996
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
357th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Near Budling, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 2 49

Immediate family

Members
Walter Kotchkoski (father)
Theodora (Sobolewski) Kotchkoski (mother)
Emilia Kotchkotski (sister)
Mary Kotchkoski (sister)
Walter P. Kotchkoski (brother)
Eleanore Kotchkoski (sister)
Theodore J. Kotchkoski (brother)
Barney Kotchkoski (brother)
Charles R. Kotchkoski (brother)

More information

Pfc Caesar R. Kotchkoski attended high school for 1 year and was employed at the Meeker Foundry.

He enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 18 August 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Russo & Kuklo Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://www.usarmydatadepot.com/composition_de_la_357th_inf_reg_de_la_90th_id_6424.htm

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, The Times Tribune - 11 January 1945