- SURNAME
Gonce
- FORENAME
Percy Ellis
- UNIT
3 Bn (Khaki Combat Team)
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
33377964
- AWARD
Bronze Star
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Cecil County, Maryland
born 1.5.1922 North East, Cecil County, Maryland
son of Thomas Allibone and Lena M. (nee Worrilow) Gonce
enlisted 1.10.1942 Camp Lee, Virginia
14 Infantry (Company C) December 1942 - July 1943
Merrills Marauders 1943-44
475 Infantry Regiment August-September 1944
20 General Hospital, Assam, India 20.9.1944
330 Engineers General Service Regiment (Company C) 22.12.1944 - 2.12.1945
honorable discharge 8.12.1945 Fort George G. Meade, Maryland (as Technician Fifth Grade)
labor construction worker, Perry Point VA Hospital, Maryland 1946-47
re-enlisted 9.4.1947 Fort George G. Meade (PFC)
65 Combat Engineer Bn
Corporal 18.7.1949
discharged and re-enlisted 8.4.1950
65 Combat Engineer Bn (Korean War 1950-51)
served US Army WW2,Korea and Vietnam
retired 1964 as Sgt E-5
married Dorothy Lena Simpers (1931-2004) (6 children Lena, David, Jeffrey, Samuel, Timothy and Wanda)
died 29.5.1973 Perry Point, Maryland
North East United Methodist Cemetery, North East, Cecil County, Maryland Section 11 Lot 71 Grave 1
17.10.2020 awarded Congressional Gold Medal
information supplied by his son Sam.
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