Purple Heart, “Charles O. Wade”, 22nd Infantry, 4th Inf Div

Purple Heart, with one oak leaf cluster, slot brooch, script-engraved “Charles O. Wade”.

2Lt Charles O. Wade, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, was killed in action on 12 April 1945 and is buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery, at St. Avold, France. Wade was from Cumberland, Maryland, and had been wounded twice in December 1944 according to newspaper accounts.