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  PFC Frank J. Holland    In memory of our fallen brother

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother"



Baker Company
35th Infantry Regiment
Korean War


"Not For Fame or Reward
Not For Place or For Rank
But In Simple Obedience To
Duty as They Understood It"

National Defense Service Medal Korean Service Medal United Nations Korean Service Medal Republic of Korea War Service Medal



The 35th Infantry Regiment Association salutes our fallen brother, PFC Frank J. Holland, RA13342779, who died in the service of his country on November 27th, 1950 in North Korea. The cause of death was listed as Captured-Died POW. At the time of his death Frank was 19 years of age. He was from Silver Spring, Pennsylvania. Frank's Military Occupation Specialty was 4745-Light Weapons Infantryman.

The decorations earned by PFC Frank J. Holland include: the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Korea Service Medal, and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.


Private First Class Holland was a member of the 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 27, 1950 and died while a prisoner on July 13, 1951. Private First Class Holland was awarded the Combat Infantrymans Badge, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal. Frank's remains were later returned.

Burial::
Silver Spring Cemetery
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA


The Gazette and Daily, 18 Aug 1953, York, Pennsylvania, Page 10.

Cpl. Frank J. Holland, Columbia, Is Listed As Prison Camp Fatality Columbia

Cpl. Frank J. Holland, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Holland, 325 Union street, was identified by the Defense department yesterday as among 207 additional Americans reported by the Communists to have died in enemy prison camps. The families of all Americans on the lists supplied by the Communists have been told the information given them cannot be verified and that the men are still officially listed as missing in action.

Cpl Holland was reported missing in action in Korea by the Defense department on Nov. 27, 1950. He attended Columbia High school and was employed by Beacon Shoe factory here at the time he entered the Army on April 17, 1950.

Besides his parents, Cpl. Holland leaves two sisters, Patricia, at home, and Mrs. Frances Schaffer, Columbia; three brothers, James and Vincent, at home, and Charles, of Columbia; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ida McCumsey, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Augustus Holland, both of Columbia.