Memeber of the 157TH Regiment, 45TH Infantry Division.news paper article in December 1943 or January of 1944. Title Wounds fatal to Cleo Boice. Saw Action in Sicily and Italy: Left City with First Selectee Group. Wounds he received in battle the day before resulted in the death November 27 in north Africa of PFC Cleo E. Boice, son of Mr. and Mrs Joe Boice 729 S Cascade Ave. The war department said in a telegraph Wednesday to the parents. Private Boice was wounded in action in Italy, but taken to north Africa for hospitalization. He had served overseas since last May seeing action first in Sicily under General Patton and then in Italy with the 45th division of the fifth army under General Clark. Born October 25, 1918 (26 years old) in Marietta, Oklahoma, he came to Colorado with his parents in November 1927. The family settled 40 miles north of Boone. For a time he attended school at Edison, and for 10 years lived on the Drinkard and Emmet ranch, loop A, of which his father was manager. He lived in Fountain six months before coming to Colorado Springs. He was employed by Fred Bohnr at the III ranch before he left to serve in the army with the first group of draftees to leave Colorado Springs, January 13, 1941. He was sent to Fort Sill, Okla., and then to Camp Barkley Tex. After several moves from camp to camp, he was sent to New York from where he was sent overseas. Besides his parents he is survived by 10 brothers and sisters: Mrs. Maudie Tuttle, Clint Boice, Mrs. Ermadean Tuttle, J. T. Boice, Mrs Addie Reynolds, Richard Boice, Mammie Boice, Jimmy Boice, Mrs. Altie Messer, and Mrs. Bessie Campau. His mother is in Marietta, where she went to spend Christmas with her father W. T. Elmore, whom she had not seen in 22 years.