Crisp County GaArchives News.....Crisp Boy Dies Of  Wounds In France July 5, 1944
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Wylie Sheppard Jr http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 September 5, 2012, 1:27 pm

CORDELE DISPATCH July 5, 1944
PFC WILLIAM CLAYTON COLEMAN, 19, DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION ON JULY 5, 
IN FRANCE, THE WAR DEPARTMENT HAS NOTIFIED HIS MOTHER, MRS. L.C. COLEMAN, OF 
CORDELE.
PFC COLEMAN ENTERED SERVICE LAST AUGUST AFTER COMPLETING HIGH SCHOOL AT ARABI. 
HE RECEIVED HIS BASIC TRAINING AT CAMP GRUDER , OKLAHOMA, AND WENT OVERSEAS IN 
MAY. HE WAS SERVING WITH THE INFANTRY AND WAS IN THE INVASION OF FRANCE. PFC 
COLEMAN WAS MARRIED LAST FEBRUARY TO MISS DOROTHY LUPO, WHO HAS MADE HER HOME 
IN MACON SINCE HER HUSBAND HAS BEEN OVERSEAS, HOLDING A POSITION THERE. HER 
LAST LETTER FROM HIM WAS RECEIVED TWO WEEKS AGO.
THE NATURE OF PFC COLEMANS WOUNDS WERE NOT DISCLOSED.
TRAINING IN THE SAME COMPANY AT FORT GRUBER WITH PFC COLEMAN, WAS ANOTHER 
CORDELE BOY WHO WENT OVERSEAS IN THE SAME OUTFIT, PFC. ROBERT H. THOMPSON JR., 
WHO IS NOW FIGHTING IN THE FOXHOLES OF FRANCE ACCORDING TO A RECENT 
COMMUNICATION.
PFC HAS MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE. HE WILL EVEN BE MISSES MORE IN HIS HOME 
TOWN AND COMMUNITY, BUT MOST OF ALL IN HIS FAMILY CIRCLE

Additional Comments:
CRISP GOLDEN BOY.

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