Della May Smith Topham (Mother)
George A. Topham Jr. (Father)
From Family Search - Enlisted 14 Jan 1942 Salt Lake City, Utah. Corporal, Troop B, 18th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized), USA Army. Fought in Battle of the Bulge, Belgium/France. Captured there by Germans and became a Prisoner of War in December 1944 until liberated 13 April 1945 in a starving and ill condition. Assigned to a hospital in Mournmalon, France and then another in Paris, France in order to recover but he did not. Died in a hospital at Paris, France and first placed in temporary burial at Blossville, France then his body was repatriated to parents in Paragonah, UT.
Della May Smith Topham (Mother)
George A. Topham Jr. (Father)
From Family Search - Enlisted 14 Jan 1942 Salt Lake City, Utah. Corporal, Troop B, 18th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized), USA Army. Fought in Battle of the Bulge, Belgium/France. Captured there by Germans and became a Prisoner of War in December 1944 until liberated 13 April 1945 in a starving and ill condition. Assigned to a hospital in Mournmalon, France and then another in Paris, France in order to recover but he did not. Died in a hospital at Paris, France and first placed in temporary burial at Blossville, France then his body was repatriated to parents in Paragonah, UT.
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