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The News, January 6, 1945
SGT. ROLAND E. MOSS, about 22, of Knoxville, is missing in
action in France, the War Department this morning notified his
mother, Mrs. Alice Moss, Knoxville, by telegram. The notification
said Sgt. Moss had been missing since December 16.
Sgt. Moss, an infantryman, has been overseas for about six months,
it was reported. No word has been received from him for some time.
He was with the First Army.
A well known resident of Knoxville, where he attended the Lutheran
church and was active in the Sunday school. Sgt. Moss entered the
service February 18, 1943. Prior to that time he had worked in the
shops of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Brunswick after
graduating from Brunswick High School in 1941. His father was the
late Clarence E. Moss. He has two brothers, one Lenwood, also being
in service overseas, and two sisters.
The News, August 13, 1948
Military reinterment in his native Knoxville cemetery, Friday, will
be accorded the remains of Sergt. Roland E. Moss, killed in action
in France, December 17, 1944, Commander Richard C. Bowers, Steadmna-Keenan
Post, American Legion, Brunswick, announced last night.
Sergt. Moss' remains will arrive in Brunswick under military guard
this afternoon at 3p.m. From overseas. The flag draped coffin will
be taken to the funeral home in Brunswick, where it will remain
until time of services there at 3p.m. Friday. Rev. Dr. H.C. Erdman
will officiate at the religious services.
A member of K. Of P. Lodge 122, Brunswick, and of the Lutheran
church at Knoxville, Sergt. Moss was a son of Mrs. Alice Stewart
Moss and the late Clarence E. Moss, of Knoxville.
At aged 22 years, he was a non-commissioned officer of the 347th
Infantry Regiment, 87th Division spearhead of General Patton's
armies in France. He was killed in his first engagment, at Sarre
Union and buried in a U.S. Military cemetery near there.
Besides his mother, he is survived by these brothers and sisters,
Clarence Moss, Washington; Sarah Lucille and Rosie E. Moss, at home;
Lenwood C. Moss, Rosemont.
Reburial arrangements are being handled by C.E. Feete and Bros.,
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