PORTSMOUTH HERALD, PORTSMOUTH, N.H., JULY 16, 1943, PAGE FOUR
YORK SOLDIER, JAP PRISONER DIES IN CAMP
Mrs. Howard Peck of York Village has been notified by the War department that her son, Harold Clapp, Jr., 23, previously listed as a prisoner of war, is dead in a Japanese prison camp.
Clapp, whose father was Maj. Harold Clapp of New York, a veteran of the first World war, is York Village's first war casualty.
A member of the signal corps, he was assigned to the Philippines in the summer of 1941. His mother had received no word from him since a short time before Pearl Harbor. Clapp at one time played with the Farragut Players at Rye and had been a member of a road group touring from New York with a children's theater series.
Besides his parents, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett of New York.
( Above article submitted by: Eric Ackerman )
YORK SOLDIER, JAP PRISONER DIES IN CAMP
Mrs. Howard Peck of York Village has been notified by the War department that her son, Harold Clapp, Jr., 23, previously listed as a prisoner of war, is dead in a Japanese prison camp.
Clapp, whose father was Maj. Harold Clapp of New York, a veteran of the first World war, is York Village's first war casualty.
A member of the signal corps, he was assigned to the Philippines in the summer of 1941. His mother had received no word from him since a short time before Pearl Harbor. Clapp at one time played with the Farragut Players at Rye and had been a member of a road group touring from New York with a children's theater series.
Besides his parents, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett of New York.
( Above article submitted by: Eric Ackerman )
PORTSMOUTH HERALD, PORTSMOUTH, N.H., JULY 16, 1943, PAGE FOUR
YORK SOLDIER, JAP PRISONER DIES IN CAMP
Mrs. Howard Peck of York Village has been notified by the War department that her son, Harold Clapp, Jr., 23, previously listed as a prisoner of war, is dead in a Japanese prison camp.
Clapp, whose father was Maj. Harold Clapp of New York, a veteran of the first World war, is York Village's first war casualty.
A member of the signal corps, he was assigned to the Philippines in the summer of 1941. His mother had received no word from him since a short time before Pearl Harbor. Clapp at one time played with the Farragut Players at Rye and had been a member of a road group touring from New York with a children's theater series.
Besides his parents, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett of New York.
( Above article submitted by: Eric Ackerman )
YORK SOLDIER, JAP PRISONER DIES IN CAMP
Mrs. Howard Peck of York Village has been notified by the War department that her son, Harold Clapp, Jr., 23, previously listed as a prisoner of war, is dead in a Japanese prison camp.
Clapp, whose father was Maj. Harold Clapp of New York, a veteran of the first World war, is York Village's first war casualty.
A member of the signal corps, he was assigned to the Philippines in the summer of 1941. His mother had received no word from him since a short time before Pearl Harbor. Clapp at one time played with the Farragut Players at Rye and had been a member of a road group touring from New York with a children's theater series.
Besides his parents, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett of New York.
( Above article submitted by: Eric Ackerman )
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