World War II Honoree

Glenn Emmett Poulton

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Ogden, Utah

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Sergeant. On November 4, 1942, he entered the United States Army at Ogden, Utah. Deployed to England, where he served as a member of the 66th Infantry ‘Black Panther’ Division assigned to Fox Company, Second Battalion an element of the 262nd Infantry Regiment. Sunday December 24, 1944 while crossing the English Channel during his deployment from Southampton, England to France, aboard the SS Leopoldville, the troopship came under attack by the German Submarine, U-486. The Submarine Commander fired two torpedoes, striking the ship, which began to sink slowing in the frigid waters five miles from the coastal shoreline of Cherbourg, France with a loss of 802 lives. Reported missing in action, lost at sea Monday, December 25, 1944, in remembrance of the Brave, his name appears in the Tablets of the Missing, memorialized at the Normandy American Cemetery located at Colleville-sur-Mer, France. His family placed a Memorial Headstone in the Memory Grove Cemetery, in Salt Lake City, Utah in his memory. This Soldier, an American Patriot, awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, who so gallantly gave his life for his country.