Identified personal item
Sewing Kit identified to Sgt. Anthony V. Andrews
Every soldier had a sewing kit, whether he bought it or given to him by a famous brand, such as Coca Cola, Seagrams or the Red Cross. There were dozens of different types and makes, some cloth and others boxed. Normally these sewing kits were a PX or private purchase item. This kit here is a boxed type from the popular company Belding-Corticelli, who had a government contract for military sewing kits. The kit seems barely used and still has needles, thread, buttons and a scissor.
This Sewing Kit once belong to Sgt. Anthony V. Andrews (#11116605), HQ Company, 308th Engineer Battalion.
T/4 Anthony V. Andrews
Technician 4th Grade
Anthony V. Andrews
Sergeant Anthony V. Andrews
Anthony Vernon Andrews Jr. was born on July 22, 1909, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Albena Vieira Costa (1885–1976) and Anthony Andrews born Antonio de Andrada (1877-). Both of his parents where born in Azores, Portugal, they married on January 18, 1906, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anthony Sr. was 41 years old and living in Plymouth, Massachusetts, when he registered for the World War I draft.
Anthony Andrews Jr. married Theresa Biganzoli (1910-2000) in 1942, in Medford, Massachusetts.
Anthony V. Andrews Jr. enlisted in the Army on November 12, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts. He had his basic training at Camp Atterbury (listed in the PayRoll of January 1943) and moved to Camp Breckinridge and trained there for the remainder of the time before leaving to the ETO and served with HQ Company of the 308th Engineers Battalion. For his service he was awarded, among other decorations, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the European African Middle-Eastern Campaign Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.
Anthony Vernon Andrews died on December 15, 1989, in Medford, Massachusetts, when he was 80 years old.
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