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Niagara Gazette - 4/22/1948

Expecting Body of Marine
Killed in I wo Jima Battle
TONA WANDA. April 22.—The
body of Pvt. Robert Clare Shiesley,
18, who died in a hospital in the
South Pacific on March 14. 1945,
from wounds suffered while fighting
with the Third Division of the
U. 8. Marine Corps on Iwo Jima,
will arrive in Tonawanda at 9 o'clock
tonight. A telegram from the dis^
tributlon Center in Columbus, O.. to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Shiesley of 64 Cleveland avenue yesterday
conveyed this information.
A graduate of the Tonawanda
high school and a member of the
school football team. Pvt. Shiesley
was employed at the Columbus Mc-
Kinnon Chain Company's plant at
Fillmore avenue and Fremont street
when he entered the U. S. Marines.