Selected Families and Individuals

Notes

Harry Victor Buri

Kicked out of high school
Drafted after high school at the age of 19
Serial # 38540962
1943-1946
Discharged
Nickname: Pinworm

3rd and 9th Armies
7 Ouffit
172 Combat Engineering, 3rd Platoon
T-5, Technician Corporal (drove Daisymaid Catepillar)

Possible battles:
D-Day, Omaha, 3rd wave
Battle of Sigfried Line (Germany)
Auchen (Germany)
Piddalbox (Germany)
Also Belgium and France

Stories: Medic officer, a friend, killed by Germans; hand to hand combat with German soldier whereby other soldier was killed; Daisymaid was driven off US boat on the way back to the USA from Europe.

Mary Agnes Dubec

Near the city of Zlin.

Marie Castulikova

Origin: Austria
Port of departure: Bremen, Germany
Ship: Brandenburg
Date departed: 12/11/1913
Date arrival: 1/16/1914
Destination: Granger, TX

Wingate Matthews

Enlisted in Union Army on March 6, 1862 at age 46 with Captain L. P. Day's Company D. 3rd regiment of Delaware volunteers. He was discharged during September 1862 at Harper's Ferry, Virginia by reason of disability. A cannon fragment went through his knee and he walked with a cane for the rest of his life. His name with this Delaware regiment is buried under the East Monument in Antietam Maryland Cemetery. This monument was erected in honor of this company in 1957.

Sylvanus Cole

Sylvanus' family information was obtained from the County Clerk's office in Eastham, MA. Pat assisted Dawn and Burton Cole.

First name may have been mispelled:

Silvanus
Silvenos
Salvenis
Silvenus

Andrew Cole

May have married Abagail Pierce (b. 7/1/1742) or Asa King.