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Re: Question: What happened to the Personal Effects?
mary ellison 5/05/03
One of the Individual Deceased Personnel Files that I have has ten pages related to what happened to a man's personal effects when KIA.
Apparently, the process began with the Captain of the Quartermater Company certifying what effects were to be inventoried ( just days after he was KIA).
The effects then were sent to an Army Effects Bureau, which was actually the Quartermaster Depot in Kansas City, Mo. (Received Feb.'45)
A letter was then sent to the next of kin ( in this case it was his mother in Chicago)notifying her to expect shipment of the effects within 30 days.
Eventually a final order for shipment was sent in May, 1945 ( after war in the ETO was over/he was KIA July 12,1944 in France).
So, ten months after his death, the family finally received
a wallet, pocketknife, souvenier coin, deposit book and nail clippers....that was it!
The man was Mike J. Holly/PFC. 90th Div./358/Reg. Co. K.
He rests in the Normandy Cemetery at Omaha Beach.
Norm
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