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World War II
PVT CARLIS RAY NEAL
Texas-12th  CAV REG, 1st CAV DIV
KIA- Battle of Luzon

12th  CAV REG, 1st CAV DIV on Luzon

Service Number
38632753
Enlisted Sep 1944
 

Born in Kentuckytown,
Grayson County
9 Jun 1926 and
died Luzon.
29 Mar 1945.

His father - John Alic Neal &
 Mother - Lora Byrd Vincent Neal


Carlis at age 16
Whitewright High School

22 Mar 1945
The Whitewright Sun

In a list of news; "PVT Carlis Neal is now
stationed somewhere in the Philippines"
He would be dead by May


The Whitewright Sun
3 May 1945

The Whitewright Sun
1 Jul 1948




The Whitewright Sun

10 May 1945



Article in the
Whitewright Sun
3 Jun 1948

"Three War Dead On Way Home"
"The Bodies of three Whitewright World War II Hero dead are on their way home, according to messages received by parents of the heroes. Two lost their lives in the Pacific and one in India."


He was listed along with
Sgt Luther C Cambron Jr &
PVT Jones Alexander...



He was reburied in 1948 in the Vittitoe Cemetery
in Kentuckytown. His father served in WWI and Carlis' his family buried in Vittitoe also. .
His Military Tombstone Order Card






His WWII Registration Card
He enlisted in Henry Co. Indiana where his parents had just moved to.


 Grayson County Military Page

Susan Hawkins
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