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Corporal Charles Lick Anderson, ASN 33589615, born 12 Dec 1923, was the son of Edgar Samuel and Elizabeth A Lizzie (Lick) Anderson of 347 Main street, Royersford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Royersford is on the Schuylkill River 33 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
In the 1930 census 6 year-old Charles is living with his parents and 3 older brothers in unincorporated Linfield on the road from Linfield to Saratoga in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, PA. Limerick is 4 miles north northeast of Royersford. His father is a Moulder in a pipe foundry. By the 1940 census 16 year-old Charles is still living with his parents and 2 older brothers in Linfield.
Charles enlisted at Philadelphia on 11 Mar 1943 and was sent overseas on 1 Dec 1944. His occupation was listed as shipping and receiving clerk. He was single, without dependents.
Corp Anderson died 26 Feb 1946, 9 months after VE Day in May 1945, of injuries received in a fall in Berlin, Germany.
Pottstown Mercury (Pottstown, Pennsylvania) 06 Mar 1946, Wed Royersford Youth Fatally Injured in Fall in Germany Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Anderson, 514 Walnut street, Royersford, were notified by the War department that their son, Corp. Charles L. Anderson, 22, died from injuries suffered in a fall in Berlin on Feb. 26. Corporal Anderson joined the Army in March,1943 and served overseas one and a half years with the field artillery. He was a member of the Linfield Reformed church and the Boy Scout troop of the church. Surviving besides his parents are three brothers, Ernest W., 42 High Street, Pottstown; Herbert A., and Robert L., at home.
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Corporal Charles Lick Anderson, ASN 33589615, born 12 Dec 1923, was the son of Edgar Samuel and Elizabeth A Lizzie (Lick) Anderson of 347 Main street, Royersford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Royersford is on the Schuylkill River 33 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
In the 1930 census 6 year-old Charles is living with his parents and 3 older brothers in unincorporated Linfield on the road from Linfield to Saratoga in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, PA. Limerick is 4 miles north northeast of Royersford. His father is a Moulder in a pipe foundry. By the 1940 census 16 year-old Charles is still living with his parents and 2 older brothers in Linfield.
Charles enlisted at Philadelphia on 11 Mar 1943 and was sent overseas on 1 Dec 1944. His occupation was listed as shipping and receiving clerk. He was single, without dependents.
Corp Anderson died 26 Feb 1946, 9 months after VE Day in May 1945, of injuries received in a fall in Berlin, Germany.
Pottstown Mercury (Pottstown, Pennsylvania) 06 Mar 1946, Wed Royersford Youth Fatally Injured in Fall in Germany Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Anderson, 514 Walnut street, Royersford, were notified by the War department that their son, Corp. Charles L. Anderson, 22, died from injuries suffered in a fall in Berlin on Feb. 26. Corporal Anderson joined the Army in March,1943 and served overseas one and a half years with the field artillery. He was a member of the Linfield Reformed church and the Boy Scout troop of the church. Surviving besides his parents are three brothers, Ernest W., 42 High Street, Pottstown; Herbert A., and Robert L., at home.
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