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CORPORAL EARL A.
TROUP, JR. was raised in Runnemede NJ, where his family lived at 401
Singley Avenue. A 1938 graduate of Audubon (NJ) High School, he was
inducted into the United States Army early in the war. He initially
served at Fort Jackson SC with the demonstration unit at the Officers
Candidate School there. He was subsequently assigned to the 119th
Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division. Sent overseas in February of
1943, he landed with his unit on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Corporal Earl Troup was killed in action in France
on July 13, 1944, at the age of 25. Surviving him were his wife, Mrs.
Dorothy Troup, of 1711 Sycamore Street in Haddon Heights NJ, and a
sister, Mrs. Helen Bolton of Runnemede NJ. His death was reported in the
August 23, 1944 edition of the Camden Courier-Post.
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