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Personal info

Full name
TOEPKER, Charles Chili
Date of birth
23 November 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Hometown
Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35674516
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
401st Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 January 1945
Place of death
Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 5 18

Immediate family

Members
Henry E. Toepker (father)
Anna A. (Nolan) Toepker (mother)
Helen M. Toepker (sister)
Mildred A. Toepker (sister)
Dorthea M. Toepker (sister)
Henry J. Toepker (brother)
Ralph H. Toepker (brother)
Henry J. Toepker (brother)
Katheryn Toepker (wife)

More information

Pfc Charles C. Toepker graduated from Norwood High School and was employed at Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company.

He enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 21 November 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Flanagan Johnson Family Tree / 1940 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - McCarthy / CSU, www.ancestry.com - SligoGalwayAlsace