Private First Class William Landau

The Tribune
Seymour, Indiana
Saturday, August 26, 1944
Page 1

Former Local Man Killed in French Battle

Pfc. William Landau Was Employed by Seymour Firm When He Entered Army

Pfc. William A. Landau, age twenty-eight, a former resident of Seymour, was killed in action in France on August 6, according to a wire received from the War Department Friday by his widow, Mrs. Juanita VanBlaricum Landau, of Columbus.

Pfc. Landau was a member of a medical unit with the U.S. Infantry. A native of St. Louis, he was residing in Seymour when he and Miss VanBlaricum were married January 31, 1942, and he entered service with the army the following March.

Wife Had Dreamed Tragedy.

Mrs. Landau said Friday she had dreamed recently that her husband had been killed and believed the dream was on August 6, the date of his death as given in the War Department telegram.

The former local young man had written to his wife almost every day from jFrance although the letters arrived at Columbus in groups. In the last letter received, written August 2, the young enlisted man said that he was well, but that he had not been able to eat anything for four days. This was believed to have been because of his work with the wounded. Mrs. Landau said that he had never written much of his battle experiences in France.

Adjustment Bureau Employe.

Pfc. Landau was a member of the Wertz Memorial United Brethren Church in columbus and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.. Landau, former residents of Seymour, who more recently lived at Louisville. When he entered the service, Pfc. Landau was employed by the State Adjustment Bureau in Seymour.

Inducted in March, 1942, he was stationed at Camp Livingston, La., for about eighteen months. He also was stationed at Camp Gordon Johnson, Fla., and Camp Pickett, Va., before going overseas in September, 1943. He is thought to have been in France for about two months.

The widow resides in Columbus with her mother, Mrs. Grace VanBlaricum, who has four sons and two other sons-in-law in service. One son-in-law and two sons, all in the Navy, are overseas.

Other survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Martin Williams, of Detroit; Miss Violet Landau, of Louisville, and Mrs. J.L. Bondurant, of Charlestown.