SGT FRANK T. CARVILL
112th FA, renamed C Co.,
TF 89th Military Police Brigade,
as part of TF 759th Military Police Battalion
Age
51, of Carlstadt, New Jersey
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 112th Field Artillery, Lawrenceville,
New Jersey
Killed June 4, 2004 when his convoy was attacked by improvised explosive
devices and rocket-propelled grenades in Baghdad.
(www.militarycity.com)
FROM RUTGERS ALUMNI IN MEMORIAM -
Remembering Frank Carvill"
(http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/alumnews/carvill_inmem.html)
Rutgers’ Sgt. Frank Carvill Dies
in Iraq
Sgt. Frank T. Carvill LC’75, a 20-year National Guard veteran, died June 4 outside Baghdad, Iraq, while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Opposition forces attacked his convoy with improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades. Ironically, Carvill had worked for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the World Trade Towers and had survived two terrorist attacks in 1993 and on September 11, 2001.
June 8, 2004 -- National Guardsman Frank Carvill twice cheated death at the World Trade Center — but died in Iraq on the day he was scheduled to return to his native New Jersey on leave.
"I guess you can say he dodged terrorism twice and it got him the third time," the serviceman's crestfallen sister, Peggy Carvill Liguori, 42, said yesterday.
Carvill, 51, of the Third Battalion of the 112th Field Artillery, died Friday when his convoy was ambushed as it traveled outside Baghdad, military officials say.
Another serviceman was killed with Carvill and three others were wounded.
Liguori spoke about her beloved brother's bad luck in Iraq at the Carlstadt, N.J., home of their mother, Mary, 78, with whom the late soldier lived.
On the day he perished, Carvill was due to return home from Iraq for two weeks leave — but the death of another serviceman's relative caused him to be bumped from the schedule, Liguori said. And it wasn't the first time Carvill had bad luck because of the war.
Carvill, a 20-year veteran of the National Guard, was thinking of retiring from the force in April 2003 — to perhaps study law — but was placed on active duty a month earlier when the Iraq campaign began, his sister said.
"We discussed getting married when he came back," added Monalisa Forde, 40, of Jersey City, his longtime girlfriend. "He was one in a billion. He was a kind, giving person. He was my very best friend in the world. It's like a piece of me is now gone."
The grim news came while Liguori was cooking for her husband, Joe, while watching a news report about soldiers killed in an attack.
"I heard five soldiers were killed east of Baghdad," she said calmly. "I said, 'Oh my God! That's terrible.'
"Then the doorbell rang. There was a colonel and chaplain and I instantly knew what it meant. For a split second, I thought, 'Maybe they just want a donation.' Then I started screaming."
Before his tour of duty in Iraq, Carvill had twice faced down terrorism in New York and survived.
On Feb. 26, 1993, when terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center for the first time, Carvill, a paralegal for a trade center law firm, helped carry an incapacitated co-worker down 54 stories.
And on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Carvill, by then a Port Authority paralegal, left his 68th-floor north tower office to take a deposition — only to hear the first hijacked plane hit his building 10 minutes later.
A short time later, he watched the second plane slam into the south tower from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yesterday, in the family home, Carvill's mother, who lost another son, Mike, 41, to colon cancer last September, tried to joke about how her late son would poke fun about her coffee.
"My son used to say, 'It's mud! I can't drink your mud!' " she said. Then she broke into sobs.
* Two soldiers from a Lawrenceville, N.J. National Guard unit were killed Saturday in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, officials said. Killed were Sgt. Humberto Timoteo of Newark and Spc. Ryan Doltz of Mine Hill.
Copyright 2004 The New York Post.
Sgt. Frank T. Carvill LC’75, a 20-year National Guard veteran, died June 4 outside Baghdad, Iraq, while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Opposition forces attacked his convoy with improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades. Ironically, Carvill had worked for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the World Trade Towers and had survived two terrorist attacks in 1993 and on September 11, 2001.
June 8, 2004 -- National Guardsman Frank Carvill twice cheated death at the World Trade Center — but died in Iraq on the day he was scheduled to return to his native New Jersey on leave.
"I guess you can say he dodged terrorism twice and it got him the third time," the serviceman's crestfallen sister, Peggy Carvill Liguori, 42, said yesterday.
Carvill, 51, of the Third Battalion of the 112th Field Artillery, died Friday when his convoy was ambushed as it traveled outside Baghdad, military officials say.
Another serviceman was killed with Carvill and three others were wounded.
Liguori spoke about her beloved brother's bad luck in Iraq at the Carlstadt, N.J., home of their mother, Mary, 78, with whom the late soldier lived.
On the day he perished, Carvill was due to return home from Iraq for two weeks leave — but the death of another serviceman's relative caused him to be bumped from the schedule, Liguori said. And it wasn't the first time Carvill had bad luck because of the war.
Carvill, a 20-year veteran of the National Guard, was thinking of retiring from the force in April 2003 — to perhaps study law — but was placed on active duty a month earlier when the Iraq campaign began, his sister said.
"We discussed getting married when he came back," added Monalisa Forde, 40, of Jersey City, his longtime girlfriend. "He was one in a billion. He was a kind, giving person. He was my very best friend in the world. It's like a piece of me is now gone."
The grim news came while Liguori was cooking for her husband, Joe, while watching a news report about soldiers killed in an attack.
"I heard five soldiers were killed east of Baghdad," she said calmly. "I said, 'Oh my God! That's terrible.'
"Then the doorbell rang. There was a colonel and chaplain and I instantly knew what it meant. For a split second, I thought, 'Maybe they just want a donation.' Then I started screaming."
Before his tour of duty in Iraq, Carvill had twice faced down terrorism in New York and survived.
On Feb. 26, 1993, when terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center for the first time, Carvill, a paralegal for a trade center law firm, helped carry an incapacitated co-worker down 54 stories.
And on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Carvill, by then a Port Authority paralegal, left his 68th-floor north tower office to take a deposition — only to hear the first hijacked plane hit his building 10 minutes later.
A short time later, he watched the second plane slam into the south tower from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yesterday, in the family home, Carvill's mother, who lost another son, Mike, 41, to colon cancer last September, tried to joke about how her late son would poke fun about her coffee.
"My son used to say, 'It's mud! I can't drink your mud!' " she said. Then she broke into sobs.
* Two soldiers from a Lawrenceville, N.J. National Guard unit were killed Saturday in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, officials said. Killed were Sgt. Humberto Timoteo of Newark and Spc. Ryan Doltz of Mine Hill.
Copyright 2004 The New York Post.
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