Memphis Democrat, January 15, 1948: Soldier Funeral Sunday. Funeral services for Pvt. Claude E. Phillips, who died overseas, were conducted at the Christian church in Memphis Sunday afternoon by the pastor Rev. G. L. Eaton, and interment was in the Memphis cemetery.
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion attended the funeral in a body. Claude E. Phillips was a son of Thomas J. and Hannah Phillips. He was born in Scotland county, Missouri, April 13 1912. He was a soldier in the United States Army, and lost his life in battle in Belgium, December 17, 1944.
He has four brothers, Vernie of Greensburg, Ambros of Monmouth, Ill; Wade of California and Mallie of Rutledge; one sister, Mrs. Lela Stone of Baring.
His body, after resting in a Government cemetery in Belgium was brought to the U.S. to find its final resting place in the land that he loved and for which he died.
Excerpt from "EMBARKATION TO OCCUPATION, The story of the Third Platoon, Co. D: 1st Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division" by Ben Silver. Chapter 7, pages 25-26, Battle of the Bulge, Losheimergraben (Dec. 16-18, 1948)paragraph 11. "The attack in the woods by the Jerry patrol which came in and fought at an interval of only 10 yards, with Congdon shooting one in the hip, and Wagner getting a kraut to his credit. 12. The return from the OP of Norman (Pappy) King who followed the communication wires back to safety but Phillips had been captured or killed."
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion attended the funeral in a body. Claude E. Phillips was a son of Thomas J. and Hannah Phillips. He was born in Scotland county, Missouri, April 13 1912. He was a soldier in the United States Army, and lost his life in battle in Belgium, December 17, 1944.
He has four brothers, Vernie of Greensburg, Ambros of Monmouth, Ill; Wade of California and Mallie of Rutledge; one sister, Mrs. Lela Stone of Baring.
His body, after resting in a Government cemetery in Belgium was brought to the U.S. to find its final resting place in the land that he loved and for which he died.
Excerpt from "EMBARKATION TO OCCUPATION, The story of the Third Platoon, Co. D: 1st Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division" by Ben Silver. Chapter 7, pages 25-26, Battle of the Bulge, Losheimergraben (Dec. 16-18, 1948)paragraph 11. "The attack in the woods by the Jerry patrol which came in and fought at an interval of only 10 yards, with Congdon shooting one in the hip, and Wagner getting a kraut to his credit. 12. The return from the OP of Norman (Pappy) King who followed the communication wires back to safety but Phillips had been captured or killed."
Memphis Democrat, January 15, 1948: Soldier Funeral Sunday. Funeral services for Pvt. Claude E. Phillips, who died overseas, were conducted at the Christian church in Memphis Sunday afternoon by the pastor Rev. G. L. Eaton, and interment was in the Memphis cemetery.
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion attended the funeral in a body. Claude E. Phillips was a son of Thomas J. and Hannah Phillips. He was born in Scotland county, Missouri, April 13 1912. He was a soldier in the United States Army, and lost his life in battle in Belgium, December 17, 1944.
He has four brothers, Vernie of Greensburg, Ambros of Monmouth, Ill; Wade of California and Mallie of Rutledge; one sister, Mrs. Lela Stone of Baring.
His body, after resting in a Government cemetery in Belgium was brought to the U.S. to find its final resting place in the land that he loved and for which he died.
Excerpt from "EMBARKATION TO OCCUPATION, The story of the Third Platoon, Co. D: 1st Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division" by Ben Silver. Chapter 7, pages 25-26, Battle of the Bulge, Losheimergraben (Dec. 16-18, 1948)paragraph 11. "The attack in the woods by the Jerry patrol which came in and fought at an interval of only 10 yards, with Congdon shooting one in the hip, and Wagner getting a kraut to his credit. 12. The return from the OP of Norman (Pappy) King who followed the communication wires back to safety but Phillips had been captured or killed."
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion attended the funeral in a body. Claude E. Phillips was a son of Thomas J. and Hannah Phillips. He was born in Scotland county, Missouri, April 13 1912. He was a soldier in the United States Army, and lost his life in battle in Belgium, December 17, 1944.
He has four brothers, Vernie of Greensburg, Ambros of Monmouth, Ill; Wade of California and Mallie of Rutledge; one sister, Mrs. Lela Stone of Baring.
His body, after resting in a Government cemetery in Belgium was brought to the U.S. to find its final resting place in the land that he loved and for which he died.
Excerpt from "EMBARKATION TO OCCUPATION, The story of the Third Platoon, Co. D: 1st Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division" by Ben Silver. Chapter 7, pages 25-26, Battle of the Bulge, Losheimergraben (Dec. 16-18, 1948)paragraph 11. "The attack in the woods by the Jerry patrol which came in and fought at an interval of only 10 yards, with Congdon shooting one in the hip, and Wagner getting a kraut to his credit. 12. The return from the OP of Norman (Pappy) King who followed the communication wires back to safety but Phillips had been captured or killed."
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