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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 32268" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gonce </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Percy Ellis</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 Bn (Khaki Combat Team) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Private First Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>33377964 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bronze Star </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Cecil County, Maryland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1.5.1922 North East, Cecil County, Maryland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Thomas Allibone and Lena M. (nee Worrilow) Gonce</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 1.10.1942 Camp Lee, Virginia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>14 Infantry (Company C) December 1942 - July 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merrills Marauders 1943-44</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>475 Infantry Regiment August-September 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20 General Hospital, Assam, India 20.9.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>330 Engineers General Service Regiment (Company C) 22.12.1944 - 2.12.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>honorable discharge 8.12.1945 Fort George G. Meade, Maryland (as Technician Fifth Grade)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>labor construction worker, Perry Point VA Hospital, Maryland 1946-47</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>re-enlisted 9.4.1947 Fort George G. Meade (PFC)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>65 Combat Engineer Bn</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corporal 18.7.1949</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged and re-enlisted 8.4.1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>65 Combat Engineer Bn (Korean War 1950-51)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served US Army WW2,Korea and Vietnam</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1964 as Sgt E-5</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Dorothy Lena Simpers (1931-2004) (6 children Lena, David, Jeffrey, Samuel, Timothy and Wanda)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 29.5.1973 Perry Point, Maryland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>North East United Methodist Cemetery, North East, Cecil County, Maryland Section 11 Lot 71 Grave 1</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17.10.2020 awarded Congressional Gold Medal</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>information supplied by his son Sam. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-gonce.3462/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/3/3462-2e98dc18c3fdb98e23dadf6fee57c1b7.jpg?1591383757" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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