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| Those who died in the air raid on Sherborne 30 September 1940 |
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| Butlin, John Dawe, Leonard J. Gartell, Albertina B. Gouller, Percy H. D. Hunt, Douglas Ireland, Henry Jeffery, William C. Knobbs, Edward D. Legg, Horace G. | Le Gallais, Albert I'e Lintern, Arthur J. Marden, Elizabeth A. Morgan, Willaim S. Reason, A. H. Trask, Barry A. Warren, Ronald K. Warren, Robert G. Warren, Patricia A. |
| The men of the 294th Engineer Combat Battalion United States Army |
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| On March 30, 1944, while completing their training for the invasion of Normandy, 29 members of C Company, 294th Engineer Combat Battalion, were killed in an antitank mine explosion. In remembrance the plaque is dedicated to their memory. |
| Sgt. Donald J. Welsh T/5 Francis X. Gallagher T/5 Warren F. Rapp T/5 Lawrence C. Sbaratta PFC. Francis J. Murphy PFC. Martin A. Norton Pvt. Charles W. Brinkofski Pvt. Robert M. Bucella Pvt. Edward D. Chiarieri Pvt. Anthony Cutrone | Pvt. John P. Deevy Pvt. John W. Gadek Pvt. Robert Gladen, Jr. Pvt. George E. Gundy Pvt. Harry B. Haschka Pvt. Joseph B. Henning Pvt. Leonard B. Kerr Pvt. Stephen E. Kosiogrowski Pvt. Roger E. Kroeger | Pvt. Leo A. Lion Pvt. John L. McHugh Pvt. Thomas S. Nicol Pvt. Lucien F. Pessoz Pvt. Conrad Propp Pvt. Robert L. Ready Pvt. Anthony T. Russo Pvt. Andrew Ter Waafbeer Pvt. Fred C. Tracet Pvt. Joseph J. Zanelli |
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| On June 9, 1989, surviving members of the 294th Engineer Combat Battalion presented this plaque to commemorate its members killed in action and express its gratitude to the people of Sherbourne for their friendship in 1944 while the battalion completed its preparations for the invasion of Europe. The battalion left this town to serve as part of the VII Army Corps in the battles in Normandy, Northern France, the Burtgen Forest, the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central Germany. We recall those killed during these compaigns. |
| Capt. Leroy G. Webster SSgt. Joseph M. Patino Sgt. Edward P. Micallef Sgt. John Murphy Sgt. Perry J. Reed | T/5 Lawrence N. Luciano T/5 Delmar G. Tucker T/5 William F. Wells PFC. Edward J. Bilicki PFC. Alex M. Heiman PFC. Daniel J. Greefe | PFC. Stanley E. Price PFC. Karl Schecter Pvt. Frank P. Rendine Pvt. Stanley G. Suda Pvt. Alton L. Weaver |
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