Woodbury County

Lt. Charles Hordzwick
*correct spelling is:

Hordzwich

 

 

IOWA HONOR ROLL

These Iowans, like those pictured here on previous Sundays, have given their lives for their country. They are men who have died in actual combat or in prison camps. The fourth line under each name designates the theatre of war in which they were serving. Other pictures will be published later.

Source: The DesMoines Register, Sunday, February 13, 1944  (photo included)

Charles K. Hordzwich was born Dec. 31, 1914 to Ben and Sophia Sierodzinska Hordzwich. He died Apr. 28, 1943 and is buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA.

2nd Lt. Hordzwich served in World War II with the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division and was KIA in Tunisia.

Source: ancestry.com