Cpl. Pearl Bryan Wilkerson - Augusta Cemetery - near Shamrock, MO - Graves Mentioning a Cause of Death on Waymarking.com

County of tombstone: Callaway County
Location of cemetery & stone: MO EE, S. of Shamrock, N. of Williamsburg
Number of graves: 262
Elevation 231 meters above sea level, in Callaway County, Missouri

Tombstone Text:

"Official information has been received that the remains of Cpl. Bryan (Peck) Wilkerson, who was killed in action in Germany on April 6, 1945, arrived in the United States on the United States Army Transport Oglethorpe Victory on July 8. The body is expected to arrive here in about two weeks. Cpl. Wilkerson, who was the Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Wilkerson of southwest of Shamrock, was a motor car driver in a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance troop serving with General Patch's Seventh Army. His body was originally buried in a U. S. Army cemetery at Bensheim, Germany. His death occurred on the morning of April 6, 1945, while he was in the courtyard near his quarters and a German mortar shell struck the roof of a nearby house, spraying the courtyard with shrapnel, some of which struck Cpl. Wilkerson and proved fatal within a few minutes. Tentative plans are for a burial service at Augusta cemetery near the late soldier's home conducted jointly by the Rev. Tom Barbee of Mexico, and the Rev. A. F. Larson of Fulton, both close friends of the Wilkerson family, and military rites by members of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars." ~ The Mexico Evening Ledger, Mexico, MO, Saturday Evening, July 17, 1948, p. 2, Col. 4

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