351st General Service Regiment

[RickV]

Sorry I posted the group photo twice - I'm still getting used to this forum. This post includes 2 images from the back of the photo. Amazingly, someone took the time to write in the names of each person. It was too big for my scanner, so it is split into 2 sections.

 

Rick

[Walt's Daughter]

Rick:

 

Can you re-upload the photo. The stupid forum erased BOTH. I removed the duplicate you posted and for some reason, they are both gone. That's never happened before. Sorry about that and thanks for understanding.

[RickV]

Glad to.

 

Rick:

 

Can you re-upload the photo. The stupid forum erased BOTH. I removed the duplicate you posted and for some reason, they are both gone. That's never happened before. Sorry about that and thanks for understanding.

[Jeremy]

Hello everyone. My Name is Jeremy and I have my grandfather who served with B Company of the 351st General Service Engineer Regiment. My father and his sister really didn't get a chance to get much information about his service in B Company. I currently serve and had pulled his service records to start the inital search to find out what I can. Since I came across this forum, I wanted to know if anyone that you knew would have a company photo of B Company. My grandfathers name was Roy Brown and he was originally from New Hampshire. Can anyone help me find possible picture of him? Thank you in advance.

 

Jeremy

[Walt's Daughter]

Jeremy: I hope someone on the forum will be able to help you with your request. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

[cwalkden]

Hi Everyone,

Would love to know some information about the 351stEngr. GSR. My grandfather, Pvt Lewis Tumia was in Co D. I have read the PDF file for this regiment and am having a discrepancy with the dates so I am wondering if I have something incorrect.

 

My Grandfather was drafted and entered 2/27/43. He was a Rifleman in the Combat Infantry. His Separation paper states he was wounded European 7 Aug 44. The narrative would have had the Regiment stationed in England from 5 July 44 to 13 Aug 44 - this is not a battle time from what I can tell.

 

My Grandfather never talked about the war so I know nothing of his service time. He died in 1991.

 

Thanks for any input!

 

Cori Walkden

[Walt's Daughter]

I talked with another new forum member this weekend, and it may be (as it was with his loved one) that your grandfather started off with one unit, but when he was discharged, was assigned to the 351st and returned home.

 

You say he was an infantryman, but how did you deduce that?

 

From what you have stated, I would indeed say he was in an infantry regiment, and did not do actual time with the combat engineer regiment. This is not uncommon.

 

Do you have any pictures or anything to help us establish which unit he started with? It's often helpful to dig through archived home town newspapers as they often featured short articles on their home town boys.

[Walt's Daughter]

Could you give us his serial number etc. Can you upload a copy of his discharge papers and anything else you think may be helpful?

[Walt's Daughter]

Is this him?

 

NARA RECORDS

[SonofaMP]

Hi Cori, it will help alot if you can send us a copy of of his discharge documents, if you can, upload them to the forum or email them to Marion or me.

We need to find which Infantry Division he was originaly was in when he was wounded, he was not with the 351st when wounded.

In you rour post you say he was wounded 7 Aug 44. I seen your message board post on Ancestry.com in which you stated " My Grandfather was also wounded, sent home for a brief time to recover and then sent back."

In this case, he would not have been sent back to his orginal unit. When he went back he would have gone through the system of Replacement Depots and assigned to his new unit ( the 351st GSR) shortly after his arrival back in France.

The 351st is shown on his discharge because it is the last unit he served with.

There may be clues to his original unit in his separation papers.