Robert J. Cosgrove
Corporal Robert J. Cosgrove of Collingswood, NJ.
Rank: Corporal, U.S. Army Air Forces
Serial Number: 13151014
Unit: 321st Squadron, 314th Troop Carrier Group
Hometown: Collingswood, New Jersey
Killed: , France
Buried: Plot B, Row 11, Grave 38, Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France
Corporal Robert Cosgrove was born in Pennsylvania in 1915, the second son of Clifford and Florence I. Cosgrove. His older brother, Clifford John Cosgrove, was born May 4, 1913. At the time of the 1920 Census, the Cosgrove family had bought a home at 1343 Princess Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden, NJ, where the elder Cosgrove worked as a foreman in a shipyard. By 1930 the family had moved to Haddon Township, NJ, where they had purchased another house at 235 Penn Avenue. Clifford Cosgrove was at this time a foreman of teamsters for a hauling company.
Robert Cosgrove was a 1933 graduate of Collingswood High School. He had married Ethel Feather, and was living at 130 Homestead Avenue in Collingswood prior to entering the Army in October of 1943 at Fort Dix, NJ.
Corporal Cosgrove served as a radio operator on a C-47 transport aircraft. He was killed in a plane crash in France on November 10, 1945. He was buried initially at Rheims, then moved to the Epinal American Cemetery at Epinal, France. Besides his wife, Robert Cosgrove was survived by his mother, Mrs. Florence Cosgrove, and his older brother, Clifford Jr., of Phoenix, MD.
Cpl. Robt. Cosgrove Killed in Plane Crash
Camden Courier-Post
Another Collingswood High School graduate has been added to the dead of this war.
Corporal Robert J. Cosgrove, 30, was killed in France while serving with the U. S. Transport Command, according to an official Government communication received by his widow, Mrs. Ethel Cosgrove, of 130 Homestead avenue. The accident occurred Nov. 10th. Cosgrove was a radio operator.
Mrs. Cosgrove said today that she understood that the plane had crashed as the result of heavy fog, and that it war [sic] likely her husband as well as the rest of the crew had died instantly.
Cosgrove, who entered the service in September 1943, had been overseas for 18 months. Surviving also are his mother, Mrs. Florence Cosgrove, and a brother, Clifford, of Phoenix, Md. Mrs. Cosgrove is the former Ethel Feather.
Robert Joseph Cosgrove
Collingswood WWII Memorial information card
Serial Number: 13151014. Entered Service: October 1943 at Fort Dix. Transferred to Camp Crowder, Missouri, for Basic Training. Left Camp Crowder: June 1944. Sent to Camp Reynolds for two weeks. Sent Overseas.
After a few months in England, was assigned to the Air Corps as a wireless operator on a C-47 troop carrier. Stationed at Paris, France, where he remained throughout the war.
Final Rank: Corporal. Met death in a plane crash on a routine scheduled flight between Frankfurt, Germany, and Paris, France: November 10, 1945. Buried in Rheims, France.