Cpl. Gethin Thomas Edmonds
Born: 28 February 1920 – Chicago, Illinois
Parents: Gethin Edmonds and Louise E. Schaar-Edmonds
Name: Thomas Gethin Edmonds on high school records
– the military required the name on birth certificate be used on his records
Siblings: 1 sister, 3 brothers
Nickname: Tom
Home:
– 1434 South Fourteenth Avenue, Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– Garfield School
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1937
Employed: Jones Grocery – Broadview, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 16 October 1940
Contact Person: Gethin Edmonds – father
Inducted:
– 28 November 1940
– Camp Forrest, Tennessee
– Company I, 130 Infantry Regiment
– U.S. Army Air Corps – 27 December 1941
Serial Number: 36026193
Training:
– Fort Croft, Louisiana
– radio operator
Unit: 16th Army Air Force – Air Transport Command
Mission: carried supplies and other war materials
Engagements:
– Assigned to China, Burma, India Area
Died:
– 2 February 1944
– plane crash – India
Buried:
– National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific- Honolulu, Hawaii
– Plot: M Grave: 861
Medals:
– Purple Heart
Note: His parents would later reside in Monrovia, California.
