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Brunswick People:

Corp Sterling Lee Owen Ambrose, Jr

Birth 24 May 1931 Death 23 Mar 1951 Father: Stirling Lee Owen Ambrose 1911–1940 Mother: Rosie M. Gosnell Ambrose Weller 1916–1991

1940 United States Federal Census Name: Ambrose Junior Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1932 Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Maryland Marital Status: Single Relation to Head of House: Son Home in 1940: Brunswick, Frederick, Maryland

Street: 10th House Number: 17 Inferred Residence in 1935: Brunswick, Frederick, Maryland Residence in 1935: Same House Citizenship: Naturalized Sheet Number: 2A Attended School or College: Yes Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 2nd grade

Household Members: Name Age Sterling Ambrose 28 Rosie Ambrose 23 Ambrose 8

U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 Name: STERLING LEE OWEN Jr Ambrose Service Info.: CPL US AIR FORCE KOREA Birth Date: 24 May 1931 Death Date: 23 Mar 1951 Cemetery: Brunswick Heights Cemetery Cemetery Address: Brunswick, MD 21716

U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current • Birth 24 May 1931 • Death 23 Mar 1951 • Burial Park Heights Cemetery Brunswick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA • Plot Section C/469 • Memorial ID 103359415

TWO COUNTY AIRMEN ABOARD TRANSPORT PLANE MISSING ON FLIGHT TO BRITISH AIR BASE –Both Have Been in Army Air Forces About Two Years – Brunswick Families Notified Yesterday. Two Brunswick airmen are aboard a C-124 Air Force transport plane missing on a flight from Maine to England, the Strategic Air Command Headquarters in Omaha, Neb., informed their parents Friday evening.

Among the 53 persons aboard the transport are: Sgt. George W. Ambrose, Jr., 21 son of George W. and Laura Ambrose of 501 Ninth Avenue, Brunswick.

Cpl. Sterling L. Ambrose, 19, son of Mrs. Rosie Ambrose Weller, of 115 Ninth Avenue, Brunswick.

Sgt. Ambrose, better known as "Bunky" has been in the Army Air Forces about two years. He was stationed in New Mexico, Texas and Mississippi before being assigned to the C-124 that left Limestone, Maine on Thursday for Mildenhall Air Base in Suffolk, England. Its radio was last heard about 1 o'clock Friday morning 800 miles southwest of Ireland.

Cpl Ambrose has been in the service since his graduation from Brunswick High School in 1948. He is a stepson of William Weller, Brunswick radio shop proprietor.

George Ambrose was a member of the 1947 Brunswick High School graduation class.

Families of the two service men were notified between 4 and 5 o'clock Friday afternoon.

Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, Md) March 24, 1951

HOPE WANES AS HUNT CONTINUES FOR LOST PLANE – Navy Sends Three Warships to Join Vast Air-Sea Search – 53 Americans on Hugh Transport – Shannon Airport, Ireland, March 25 – The U.S. Navy sent three warships tonight to join one of the biggest air-sea searches in history for a U.S. Air Force Globemaster which disappeared in the Atlantic on Good Friday with 53 American airmen aboard. …… The Brunswick servicemen, George W. Ambrose, Jr. 21, and Sterling L. Ambrose, 19, were among those aboard the big transports. …..

Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, Md) March 26, 1951