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SERGEANT FRANK J. GEORGE
was born in 1917 to Paul and Josephine M. George. His father had come to
America in 1910, and worked as a butcher for the Campbell Soup Company.
Frank George was the second of three sons, coming between William and
Nicholas, there was also a sister, Josephine. He attended the Broadway
Elementary School, and Burrough Junior High School in Camden. By 1930 the family owned a home at 548
Pine Street in Camden NJ. After
leaving school, Frank George took a job at the RCA-Victor plant in
Camden. He was inducted into the Army in May of 1942. After he had
completed training he had received a brief furlough, and had married
Miss Mary Resicci of Camden NJ in August of 1942 before going
overseas.
Sergeant Frank George died while serving as a member of the
53rd Quartermaster Truck Battalion while serving in Italy, after seeing
duty in Tunisia and Sicily. His death was reported in the February 29,
1944 edition of the Camden Courier-Post, which stated that he was killed
while attached to an engineer unit. This report taken in context with
the fact that he was a member of a Quartermaster Truck Battalion and was
not awarded the Purple Heart would seem to indicate that he was killed
in an accident.
Frank George was survived by his parents,
by his
wife Mary George, of the Pine Street address, his brother Nicholas, then
at Camp Cooke CA, and his brother William and sister Josephine, at
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