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Personal info

Full name
FERGUSON, Paul
Date of birth
14 April 1923
Age
22
Place of birth
Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31362181
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
271st Infantry Regiment,
69th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 April 1945
Place of death
Leipzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 15 25

Immediate family

Members
William Ferguson (father)
Grace (Arnzen) Ferguson (mother)
Alberta Ferguson (sister)
Arnzen Ferguson (brother)
William Ferguson (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Paul Ferguson enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 June 1943.

Paul Ferguson had been engaged in the struggle for Leipzig. He had been in the ASTP Program, assigned to the Engineering School at Manhattan until the disbandment of the program. He was then transferred to the Infantry and had been through engagements in France and Belgium before meeting his death at Leipzig.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Henri-Chapelle Block PP, Row 8, Grave 181.

Source of information: Marcel M.A. Gerards, Peter Schouteten, Erwin Derhaag, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, Duke Alumni Register

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Duke Alumni Register