Thomas Evison - U.S. Army
Jan 20, 2016 22:12:49 GMT
Post by shred on Jan 20, 2016 22:12:49 GMT
Name Thomas Evison
From Pennsylvania
Service Number 6806955
Rank First Sergeant
Service U.S. Army
Regiment 42nd Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
War World War II
Date Death 03-05-1944
Burial Plot C Row 5 Grave 42, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England
Cemetery Details Cambridge, England
Thomas Evison was shot dead whilst asleep by a fellow soldier. Thomas was born at Hindley Green, Wigan and the 1911 census shows his mother Annie Bond living at 3 Garden Lane, Boothstown, with two sons, Hugh and Joseph. I am struggling to find Thomas in the 1901 or 1911 census.
Alex F Miranda was executed by a firing squad at Shepton Mallet prison on the 30th May 1944.
In 1988 the family of Alex asked the U.S. Army to review the case asking that the charge be reduced to manslaughter.
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From Pennsylvania
Service Number 6806955
Rank First Sergeant
Service U.S. Army
Regiment 42nd Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
War World War II
Date Death 03-05-1944
Burial Plot C Row 5 Grave 42, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England
Cemetery Details Cambridge, England
Thomas Evison was shot dead whilst asleep by a fellow soldier. Thomas was born at Hindley Green, Wigan and the 1911 census shows his mother Annie Bond living at 3 Garden Lane, Boothstown, with two sons, Hugh and Joseph. I am struggling to find Thomas in the 1901 or 1911 census.
Alex F Miranda was executed by a firing squad at Shepton Mallet prison on the 30th May 1944.
In 1988 the family of Alex asked the U.S. Army to review the case asking that the charge be reduced to manslaughter.
On May 30, 1944--in the midst of World War II--U.S. Army Pvt. Alex F. Miranda stood before an American firing squad in England and spoke his last words.
"Pray for me," the 20-year-old soldier from Santa Ana beseeched a chaplain. "And may God have a place for you in heaven."
Then Pvt. Miranda, who had fatally shot his sleeping sergeant almost three months earlier, was felled by a volley from 10 rifle-bearing soldiers.
Nearly half a century later, Miranda's family remains disturbed by the events leading to his execution. Louis Martinez Jr., 47, a cement worker from Santa Ana, said he "was always bothered" by his family's story of how his uncle had died.
"Pray for me," the 20-year-old soldier from Santa Ana beseeched a chaplain. "And may God have a place for you in heaven."
Then Pvt. Miranda, who had fatally shot his sleeping sergeant almost three months earlier, was felled by a volley from 10 rifle-bearing soldiers.
Nearly half a century later, Miranda's family remains disturbed by the events leading to his execution. Louis Martinez Jr., 47, a cement worker from Santa Ana, said he "was always bothered" by his family's story of how his uncle had died.
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