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Personal info

Full name
VOSELES, Charles Albert
Date of birth
8 August 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois
Hometown
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36962540
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
253rd Infantry Regiment,
63rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 March 1945
Place of death
Büdingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 31 26

Immediate family

Members
Peter Voseles (father)
Katy Voseles (mother)
Mary E. (Emerson) Voseles (wife)
Charles A. Voseles (son)

More information

Pfc Charles A Voseles attended Abraham Lincoln Junior High School for one year and was employed as a grinder at the Rockford Drop Forge.

He is remembered at Calvary Cemetery in Winnebago, Winnebago County, Illinois with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – Headstone and Interment Record, Budden Pealer Tree / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.63rdinfdiv.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy / Michal Stanislaw Klimczak, Abraham Lincoln Junior High School 1931