PFC Adolph C. Noll

courtesy of Glenn

PFC Adolph C. Noll was born 11 Mar 1916 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first of the 3 children born to Adolph Conrad and Frances (Vrba) Noll. His father worked as a stevedore and truck driver. Young Adolph did get married.

Adolph was drafted in May 1942. He might have been assigned to G Company 116th Infantry before the unit boarded the Queen Mary and sailed for England in September 1942 but he was certainly assigned to the unit and trained with it for the amphibious invasion of occupied Europe and took part in that effort on 6 Jun 1944. PFC Noll fought with the unit until killed in action on 21 Jun 1944.

PFC Noll was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred in the Long Island National Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York.

His great-gradfather, Christian Noll, had immigrated from Württemberg, Germany and served with D Company 103rd New York Infantry and was injured in the attack on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina.