Name: Edgar Francis Oxner Rank: Sergeant Service No.: 33600335 Service: 45th Reconnaissance Troop, 45th Infantry Division (The Thunderbird Division) United States Army Date of Birth: June 21, 1909 Place of Birth: Lunenburg, Bridgewater Co., NS Date of Enlistment: April 13, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Age at Enlistment: 33 Address at Enlistment: 34 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Next of Kin: Mr Charles Albert Oxner (Father) Trade: Salesman Religion: Protestant / Church of England Date of Death: September 22, 1944 Age at Death: 35 Cemetery: Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France Grave: Plot A, Row 6, Grave 63 Born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Edgar was the son of Charles Albert Oxner (1877-1950) and Ina Jane (Frizell) Oxner (1874-1948). He was the brother of Lorna Phyllis Oxner (b.1911), Merril G. Oxner (1904-1935), and Vida C. Oxner (1901-1978). He was married to Edna Swanland (1915-1957) and was the father of Edward Francis Oxner (1932-2002) and Vida Jane Oxner (1935-2020). He attended school at the Lunenburg Academy in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In 1928, he moved to Boston and later to Pennsylvania, where he was employed as an engineer at the Supplee Ice Cream Company (Sealtest Ice Cream’s predecessor) until his enlistment. At the age of 27, he applied for US citizenship on April 14, 1937. At that time he was living at Bartram Avenue in Essington, Pennsylvania. Edgar enlisted in Pennsylvania on April 13, 1943, and completed basic training in Mississippi. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant while serving in Mississippi. His Division went overseas to Africa in December of 1943 and later moved to Sicily, Italy, and France. Sergeant Oxner was killed in action, the result of artillery shell fragments, on September 22, 1944.