Pvt.
Clarence
H.
Trask
Born in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Walter Frederick Trask
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 36
[location unknown]
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Pvt. Clarence Trask was Killed in Action during World War II.
Biography
Clarence was born to Walter and Emily Cook Trask in Salem, Massachusetts on August 9, 1908. [1][2]
Clarence enlisted in the United States Army on September 18, 1943. [3]
He was killed in action in 1944. [4][3] At the time of his death, Pvt. Trask's unit was preparing to attack the German Siegfried Line and had, In September of 1944, set up in the vicinity of Maastricht, Holland. [5]
His body was returned to the US in 1948 [6], and he is interred at Highland Cemetery in Ipswich, Massachusetts. [7]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXJZ-28V : 1 March 2016), Clarence H. Trask, 09 Aug 1908, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #p 707, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,250.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQLF-ZJ3 : accessed 17 November 2017), Clarence H Trask in household of Walter F Trask, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 81, sheet 17B, line 58, family 361, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 895; FHL microfilm 2,340,630.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1Z-FBXH : 17 May 2016), Clarence H Trask.
- ↑ The War Department, The Adjutant Generals Office, Administrative Services Division. "World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Massachusetts, 1946," Item from Record Group 407: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917- [AGO], 1905 - 1981.National Archives at College Park; citing records for Essex County, Massachusetts, p. 11.
- ↑ 29th Division Association Web Site. Web link
- ↑ "140 War Dead Returning To Bay State," The Boston Traveler 30 Mar 1948: 8. Print.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #139043617
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