Unknowns of the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in World War II
Andilly Unknowns

Listed by Unknown X-Number
by Wesley Johnston, Historian of the 7th Armored Division Association
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Last updated: August 12, 2019 - What's New?

Spare a minute
to think
of the young who didn't grow up,
and how young they looked when they died,
and how no one will ever remember them looking tired and middle-aged
or even be bored by tiresome recitals of the time of their youth.

- - - - Russell Baker "How to Observe Dec. 7" (NY Times, Dec. 1965)

So they will not be "Forgot"
There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man.
It hurls its barbed syllables,
And is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.
Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
The most accomplished shot!
Time’s sublimest target
Is a soul “forgot”!

----- Emily Dickinson

The temporary U. S. Military Cemetery at Andilly, France received 10 unknowns who have never yet been identified. This web page lists all 10 and gives a summary of the information for each. The columns are:

  1. Case: The Andilly X-number assigned to the case of the recovered unknown remains.
  2. PDF Page: The page in the PDF file of the X-file for the case that contains the initial Report of Burial or Report of Interment. Click here for the PDF files of all Andilly X-files, as well as the burial roster and cross-reference files.
  3. Recovery/First Burial: This is the date either of the recovery in the Recovery checklist or else the date of first burial (or date of the Report of Burial of the first burial it is earlier than the burial date).
  4. Redesig: An X or a blank to indicate the presence or absence, respectively, of re-designation of the case number for this case. For Andilly, none of the cases were re-designated, but at other cemeteries such as St. Avold, cases were received from other cemeteries as they were closed down and consolidated, and these were sometimes given new case numbers at the receiving cemetery.
  5. Notes: Miscellaneous notes from or related to the case file, usually starting with the "Place of Death" field from the Report of Burial or from other documents in the X-file.

Still-Unidentified Unknowns Recovered for Burial at Temporary U. S. Military Cemetery at Andilly, France
Click on the X-number to view the file.

CasePDF
pages
Recovery/First
Burial
Plot-Row-GraveNotes
X-23
42
25 Aug 1944
C-10-250
Bayon, FRA; case 22516 consolidated with X-23
X-33
34
5 Jun 1944
C-7-154
Moselle River at Flavigny, FRA
X-44
36
18 Jul 1944
L-6-139
Vic. Briez, FRA and Doncourt (Moselle); case 49397 consolidated with X-44
X-56
29
9 Jul 1945
M-5-107
8 km SW of Metz on N57; shoe size 6 1/2 E; remains consist of pelvis, right femur, left leg and part of foot -- EXACT SAME AS GRANT FOSSUM (C/23 AIB/7AD KIA 11 Sep 1944 in the Dornot bridgehead) - shoe size 6 1/2 E rules out S/Sgt. James W. Crawford (C/23 AIB KIA 8 Sep 44) who had shoe size 8E and also William Halloran (C/23 KIA 11 Sep 44 possibly Hamm X-46) who had shoe size 7 1/2 EE - possibly 5ID
X-72
23
4 Sep 1945
M-7-161
Longueville-les-Cheminot, FRA U-834406; land mine
X-73
19
13 Jun 1945
M-7-153
Moulins-les-Metz, FRA U-812758; shoe size 8D
X-74
21
18 Jan 1934
M-7-152
Fort Driant, Ars-sur-Moselle, FRA U-780550; Helmet 3044; First aid packet 3756; only remains consist of about 3" piece of frontal part of skull
X-76
26
6 Jun 1945
M-9-217
1/2 Mi E of Haut de Faice, FRA VU-033085; Raincoat S-6243 (Joseph W. Shenk); Trousers M-8250 (Eugene F Moriarty Jr not killed), Carbine clip K-3144
X-77
27
12 Dec 1945
M-9-221
6 1/2 Mi NE of Metz on Rt N 412 U-6393;

Cross-Reference Identifications of Unknowns Recovered for Burial at Temporary U. S. Military Cemetery at Andilly, France

The administrators at Andilly did NOT include the X-number on some of the cross-reference identification sheets. Instead they used a France-wide numbering system for Unknowns. Thus instead of an identification sheet showing "Unknown X-47" those sheets showed "Unknown 21349 France".

The following table gathers the information from all Andilly cross-reference identification sheets and burial rosters (3 distinct PDF files).

Clearly, the cross-reference sheets fail to include all accounted Andilly Unknowns. The main ETO Unknowns web page includes references to some of those other Andilly X-numbers, sometimes with identification and sometimes without identification. Those are NOT included on this web page, since this web page includes only references in the surviving Andilly-specific records.

At this time (7 Aug 2019), the references below have not yet been integrated into the main ETO Unknowns web page, but I do intend to do that integration when time allows.

NOTE: X-23 and X-44 appear in both the list above of still-unidentified cases and in this list, since in both cases remains from another case were consolidated into those cases.

XnnnnnPlot-Row-GravePDF
Title
PDF
Pg Ref
Notes
X-4
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
3
Kimpel, Harold G. O-1 310 458
X-13
D-1-8
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 4)
X-16
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
5
Hay, Russell J. 32 132 761
X-18
22513
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
4
Sorom, Owen W. 37 565 789; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 6 gives X number and ASN)
X-19
D-1-23
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 7)
X-22
22515
H-11-260
X-Ref-1 to 62464
5
Chludzinski, Edward V. 31 063 545
X-23
22516
G-10-250
Burial Rosters
5
"Consolidated with X-23" (NOT YET IDENTIFIED); also X-Ref-1 to 62464 (PDF p 6)
X-24
D-2-38
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 8)
X-27
22910
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
13
Scott, Alfred W., Jr. O-744 770; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 9)
X-29
D-2-43
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 10)
X-37
24058
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
15
Jennings, Edgar G. 33 620 578; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 11)
X-40
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
12
Sasser, James W. 6 986 099
X-41
K-1-25
Burial Rosters
6
Ident as: Betancourt, Ismael 42 124 923; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 13)
X-44
49397
L-6-139
Burial Rosters
5
"Consolidated with X-44 and 293 for pertinent deceased" (NOT YET IDENTIFIED); X-Ref-1 to 62464 (PDF p 17): filed under Prantoni, Michael E.; X-Ref-1 to 62464 (PDF p 18): now filed under Scott, Andrew J. 6 658 123
X-47
50022
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
19
Dondelinger, George J. 20 726 393
X-51
D-3-63
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 14)
X-52
D-10-240
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 15)
X-53
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
16
Hard, Alva M. 36 056 038
X-54
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
17
Honaker, Calvin A. Pvt. 33 533 736
X-55
M-5-104
Burial Rosters
2
unidentified at time of transfer but apparently later identified; ARM = 1 (vs 8 for all other still-unidentifieds)
X-55
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
18-19
Cogdill, Lewis E. 20 457 061
X-57
D-5-147
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 20)
X-58
D-6-148
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 21)
X-59
D-7-153
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 22)
X-60
D-7-157
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 23)
X-61
D-7-159
Burial Rosters
6
Foreign National; also X-Ref-1 to 78 (PDF p 24)
X-62
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
25
Hye, George H. 42 104 630
X-63
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
26
West, Forrest R. 38 044 767
X-64
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
27
Liner, John A. 34 721 923
X-71
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
28
Panion, Charles C. 33 153 227
X-77
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
29
Feit, Herbert E. 15 304 154
X-78
--
X-Ref-1 to 78
30
Daniels, Henry 17 035 677
X-???
22510
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
3
Duncan, Earnest B. 38 345 057
X-???
22517
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
7
Lemmon, Albert L. 39 712278
X-???
22518
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
8
Greckner (or Goekner), Ambrose H. 36 025 827
X-???
22519
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
9
Cox, Owen E.
X-???
22521
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
10
Mullins, Thomas J. 31 300 808
X-???
22522
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
11
Peterson, Floyd W. 37 034 480
X-???
22908
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
12
Fieldman, Ralph H. 36 337 431
X-???
23076
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
14
Beck, Kenneth C. 37 450 115
X-???
24120
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
16
Buonarobo, Louis J. 12 144 418
X-???
62464
--
X-Ref-1 to 62464
20
Church, John M. O-799 938

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