Donald Chant Bohn

FIRST LIEUTENANT DONALD C. BOHN, 21, of 216 Burwood Avenue in Westmont NJ, while serving with the 414^th Infantry Regiment, 104^th Infantry “Timberwolf” Division, was killed on April 19, 1945, at Halle, Germany while trying to rescue several of his wounded men. An infantry platoon leader, he voluntarily left his position and moved across a fire-swept terrain to give first aid and evacuate five wounded members of his platoon. While performing this self assigned task, he was mortally wounded, but refused treatment until he was certain that his mean had been removed to safety.  He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, and is buried in Locustwood cemetery, Cherry Hill NJ, near his parents and brother. 

Born October 2, 1923, he was the son of Frederick H. and Ruth M. Bohn.  His father served in the Army during World War I with the 52nd Pioneer Infantry. Donald Bohn was a 1942 graduate of Collingswood High School in Collingswood NJ, and had played quarterback for the school football team there. He had attended in semester at Western Maryland College before being called to service in February of 1943. He was sent overseas in December of 1944. 

Donald Chant Bohn was survived by his parents and a brother Sergeant Frederick H. Bohn Jr. who had served in the Army with Company A of the 835th Engineer Battalion in North Africa and Italy for 31 months during the war.

Donald Bohn was brought home after the war, and buried at Locustwood Cemetery in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ, where he rests today next to his parents and brother Frederick.

May 23, 1942

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216 Burwood
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