Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wall, Thomas Edwin January 1945
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, January 19, 1945  
The Ellaville Sun  Friday, January 19, 1945  
 
EDWIN WALL DIES IN AIR RAID JAPS REPORT
The Japanese radio has reported Edwin Wall, 24, of Schley county, as killed in 
a United States air raid on Mukden prison in Manchuria.
 
Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Wall, of Hopewell community, were notified Monday of the 
broadcast in a telegram from the war department.  The message said government 
monitors had picked up the broadcast, but added that until the report can be 
confirmed the war department still is listing the young Schley countian as a 
prisoner of war.
 
The message, if confirmed, climaxes almost three years of suspense for the 
youth's family.  After hearing no word from Edwin for two months, his parents 
were notified on May 14., 1942, that he had been missing in action since the 
surrender of Manilla.  Several months after he was reported a prisoner of the 
Japanese.  Since that time two postal cards were received from him.
 
A native of Schley county, Edwin was graduated by Schley County High School in 
1938 and two years later enlisted in the Navy.  He was sent to Hawaii during 
the fall of Manilla.


Additional Comments:
Wall, Thomas Edwin, Coxswain, USN.  Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Welton Wall, 
Ellaville.  Date of death is uncertain.  It could have been in late 1944.


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