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Nelson, Gordon F. 1917-1943

NELSON

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 12/13/2023 at 00:29:27

Clayton County Register, 08 July 1943.

Gordon F. Nelson, technician fifth grade in the Army Medical corps, died on a date unreported in the Southwest Pacific, according to a telegram received Friday afternoon by his father, Carl A. Nelson of Garber. The telegram came from the war department and stated briefly that Corporal Nelson had died and that further details would follow.

The youth had been in the army for eight months and had only recently been sent overseas. His father received a cablegram from him a week before saying he was well, and a letter received by his sister last week stated that he was in Australia.

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Added by S. Ferrall 12/13/2023:
Manchester - Memorial services were held at the First Lutheran church here, Tuesday for Cpl. Gordon Francis Nelson, 25, son of Carl Nelson of Colesburg, who was accidentally killed in an airplane accident in Australia last June 27.

The services were in charge of the local pastor, Rev. W.A. Adix, and Capt. Otto R. Schawe, Lutheran chaplain in the U.S. army, who recently returned to the States from New Guinea. Members of the American Legion, Legion Auxiliary and United Service Women attended in a body.

Corporal Nelson was born at Verona, N.D., July 12, 1917, moved to Colesburg in 1937, entered the service Oct. 16, 1942, and left for U.S. foreign service Oct. 16, 1942.

~Waterloo Daily Courier, Wednesday, September 29, 1943, page 10 (included the photo below)
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Bonus Case Files, WWII (ancestry.com database):
Gordon Frances Nelson
DOB: 7/12/1917
DOD: 6/27/1943
Place of death: Australia
Cause: Airplane accident

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National Cemetery Interment Control Form (ancestry.com database):

Interment Date: 9/7/1949
Ft. Snelling Nat'l Cemetery

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Find A Grave memorial (gravestone photo & photo of Nelson):
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44510890/gordon-f-nelson
Ft. Snelling National Cemetery
Minneapolis, MN
SECTION C-24 SITE 14106


 

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