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| UNIT:
114th Infantry Regiment, 44th
Infantry Division |
| RANK:
Private First Class |
| BORN:
April 25, 1915 |
| WHERE:
Collinsville, Madison Co., IL |
| DIED:
December 2, 1944 |
| WHERE:
France |
| CAUSE
OF DEATH: Killed in Action in
France near Waldambach, France |
| BURIED:
Saints Peter & Paul Catholic
Cemetery |
| MARKER:
Military Marker & Private
Headstone |
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| Pfc. Charles
Ashmann, twenty-nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Ashmann, R.2, Collinsville has been killed in
action, a wire to his wife, formerly Roberta
Dankenbring of East St. Louis, stated the message
from the War Department was delivered to her late
Wednesday morning and said he met his death
December 2 in France. Pfc. Ashmann was born in
Collinsville on April 25, 1914, and lived here
all his life, attending school at SS Peter and
Paul’s Catholic church. He had been married
for three years, and he and his wife have one
child, Irene, fourteen months old.
Pfc. Ashmann
entered the Armed Forces in March, 1942, and was
trained for the infantry at Ft. Lewis,
Washington. He went overseas in the fall of this
year. Before his induction he was employed by the
Collinsville Coal Corporation.
Besides his
parents, wife, and child, Ashmann is survived by
one brother, Bernard; three sisters, Mrs. Mary
Boehm, Mrs. Margaret Jalinsky, and Mrs. Julia
Mikulait, all of Collinsville.
A memorial mass
will be observed at the Catholic Church on
Sunday, December 31, at 11 a.m.
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Pfc. Chas.
Ashmann
