 World
War II
SGT
Alfred David Carender
142nd Infantry
36th Infantry Division
ARMY
- DOW - France
Service Number: 38037185
From : Men and Women in the Armed Forces from
Grayson County.
When he
was killed his unit was fighting in
very heavy forests in the Vosges
Mountains in Eastern France. It was
cold and rainy.
Fort Worth Star - Telegram
7 Feb 1915 - 24 Dec 1944
In a list of Denison men killed.
His brother was Leslie Clyde Carender who
lived in Pottsboro
Alfred Carender married Valerie Waits 26 July
1935, in Grayson County.
They married in the Preston Bend Baptist
Church
They were divorced without dependents by 1941.
He enlisted in 28 Jan 1941
Ancestry has some information from his
'Hospital Card', after the battles,
battlefield medics had to check all dead and
wounded and record how they were
wounded or what killed them.
His card says that his Diagnosis; Causative
Agent; Bullet
He is listed as a casualty. and the medical
treatment given was "transfer of another's
blood to a patient. "
injured in the line of duty- died.
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Battlefield
soldiers were buried in temporary cemeteries
nearby.
Then he was moved to Epinal Cemetery
in France and
He was brought home in 1949 and buried in Preston
Bend Cemetery
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His WWII
Registration Card
His enlistment was in
Dallas Co.
He was divorced without dependents. He had
gone to Grammar School and was a farm
hand.
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Grayson
County Military Page
Susan
Hawkins
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