Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....ROBERTSON, CPL. JAMES GLEN November 25, 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 April 23, 2011, 11:52 am CORDELE DISPATCH CPL. ROBRTSON DIES OF WOUNDS IN BELGIUM MRS. G.F.ROBERTSON HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT THAT HER SON ,CPL. JAMES GLEN ROBERTSON,21, DIED DECEMBER 21ST, OF WOUNDS SUFFERED IN ACTION IN GERMANY ON NOVEMBER 25TH. CPL.ROBERTSON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED FOR THE SECOND TIME,WHEN HIT BY A GERMAN LUGER BULLET WHICH ENTERED THE CHEST AND PENETRATED TO THE SPINE.HE DIED IN A BELGIUM BASE HOSPITAL. CPL. OBERTSON ENTERED THE SERVICE MARCH 3,1943 AND WAS SERVING WITH ANTI AIRCRAFT OUTFIT.HE HAD BEEN OVERSEES 10 MONTHS.REARED HERE,THIS CORDELE SOLDIER HAS A HOST OF FRIENDSTO WHOM HIS DEATH HAS BROUGHT DEEP SORROW, AND WHOSE SYMPATHIES GO OUT TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY. BESIDWS HIS MOTHER.HE IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING SISTERS AND BROTHERS; MRS. ANDREW LOCKETT,OF BALTIMORE,MD.;MRS. JOHN TURNER,CORDELE;S 1-C GEORGE ROBERTSPN,CORPUS CHRISTI,TEXAS; AND S 2C MARVIN ROBERTSON, OF FT.PIERCE,FLA. MEMORIA; SERVICES FOR CPL. ROBERTSON WIL BE HELD HERE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK FROM THIRD STREET BAPTIST, CONDUCTED BY REV.PAUL VAN GORDER, PASTOR ,AND REV. M.E.PEAVY,OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. THE ELLIS QUARTET WILL RENDER THE SONG SELECTIONS. Additional Comments: CASUALTY OF WW11 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/obits/r/robertso13289ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb