Cosgrove, 26, Dies in Italy.
First Sergt. Thomas F. Cosgrove, 26, was killed in action Jan. 30 in Italy, the War Department informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Cosgrove, 809 Fremont st., Friday. On Thursday they had received a telegram that he was missing in action.
Sergeant Cosgrove had been wounded twice before and held the purple heart reward. He was graduated from the high school at Hiteman, Ia, in 1934, and from Albia junior college in 1936. He then came to Des Moines where he attended the American Institute of Business for a year and a half.
Leaving for Camp Claiborne, La., with the Iowa National Guard in February of 1941, he went overseas in April of 1942 and was stationed in Ireland, Scotland, North Africa and Italy.
Survivors, besides his parents, are two sisters, Mary Joe Cosgrove, who enlisted in the WAVES Saturday, and Mrs. W. D. Lindmark, of Des Moines, and a brother, Thomas, Moline, Ill.
Source: The Des Moines Tribune, Saturday, March 4, 1944
