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Personal info

Full name
CURRIE, Willie Jr
Date of birth
21 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Cumberland County, North Carolina
Hometown
Cumberland County, North Carolina
Ethnicity
African American

Military service

Service number
34676859
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
4204th Quartermaster Service Company
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
9 June 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 12 7

Immediate family

Members
Willie J. Currie (father)
Talmage Prior (stepfather)
Catherine (Walker) Currie (mother)
James L. Currie (brother)

More information

Willie Currie was employed in a field's dress shop in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in civilian life.

He is remembered with a memorial at the Second Baptist Cemetery, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Birth Index, www.fold3.com - WWII Draft Card, 1940 United States Federal Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Des Philippet, Never Ever Forget