(courtesy of Shirley Mitchell)Grave
marker for Stewart A. Frizzell in the Morrison Cemetery, Canaan (Essex
county), Vermont.
Stewart enlisted in the Army at
Manchester, NH on 9 February 1942 and was initially assigned to the Band
for the 503rd PIR.
On 20 October 1942, as the 508th PIR
was activated, Cpl Frizzell was attached to Hq Hq, 508th and then made a
member of the 508th band as it was formed.
Cpl Frizzell was appointed to the
grade of T/4 on 5 November 1942.
T/4 Frizzell remained in the 508th
band and left when the band was merged with other band units to form the
112th Army Ground Forces Band.
Based on his grave marker inscription
he attained the rank of SSgt at a later date. |