Lemke, John Anton

1914 - 1944  (29 years)

• Name	Lemke, John Anton
  Birth	24 Nov 1914	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  1930 Census	1930	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Anton J Lemke47 Laura B Lemke45 John A Lemke15 Marion R Lemke14
  Education - High School	1931	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Kaukauna High School Class of 1931
  Education - College/University	1936	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Lawrence College Class of 1936
  Military Service	WWII,
  possible?; NAME:John A Lemke GENDER:Male RACE:White RELIGION:Protestant DISPOSITION:Nonrecoverable SERVICE BRANCH:Army RANK:Private First Class SERVICE NUMBER:36203211 NAME:John A Lemke BRANCH OF SERVICE:Coast Artillery Corps RANK:Private First Class SERVICE NUMBER:36203211 SUB UNIT:H Battery ASSIGNED UNIT:200th Coast Artillery Regiment (AntiAircraft) SOURCE:Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation of New Mexico Inc. - web site POW CAMP/NOTES:Died on Arisan Maru on 10/24/44
  Death	22 Oct 1944	War - World War II
  Obituary	20 Jun 1945
  Kaukauna Times
  Word received here from the War Department by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lemke stated that their son, Pfc. John Lemke is presumed to have perished on October 24, 1944, when a Japanese prison ship on which he was a believed to have been confined, was sunk as a result of submarine action in the South China Sea. He will be listed as killed in action on that date. Pfc. Lemke enlisted on 9 March, 1941. He left for the Philippines on September 6, 1941 and was taken prisoner on Corregidor on May 6, 1942. He was a 1931 graduate of Kaukauna high school and in 1935 graduate of Lawrence College. Besides his parents his is survived by one sister, Marion, an instructor at Kaukauna high School
  Obituary	22 Jun 1945
  Appleton Post Crescent
  NAME:John A. Lemke BIRTH DATE:24 Nov 1914 BIRTH PLACE:Kaukauna, WI DEATH DATE:1944 PUBLICATION DATE:22 Jun 1945 PUBLICATION PLACE:Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA PUBLICATION TITLE:Post-Crescent
  Person ID	I119463	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	Lemke, Anton J.,   b. 20 Apr 1882, Morrison, Brown, Wisconsin, USA d. 9 Jul 1961, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Schulz, Laura,   b. 2 Aug 1884, , , Wisconsin, USA d. 29 Oct 1976, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F46543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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