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Remembering World War II
Edward Francis Oxner
Name:
Edgar Francis Oxner
Rank:
Sergeant
Service No.:
33600335
Service:
United States Army
Unit:
45th Reconnaissance Troop,
45th Infantry Division (The Thunderbird Division)
Date of Birth:
June 21, 1909
Place of Birth:
Lunenburg, 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 A 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 T., Merril G., and Vida C. Oxner. He was
married to Edna Swanland (1915-1957) and was the father of a son, Edgar, and a daughter Vida Jane.
He went to school at the Lunenburg Academy.
In 1928 he moved to Boston and later to
Pennsylvania, where he was employed as an
engineer in the Supplee Ice-cream Company
(Sealtest Ice Cream’s predecessor) until his
enlistment.
At the age of 27, he applied for US citizenship
April 14, 1937, and was living at Barton 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.