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Personal info

Full name
LASHER, Philip Kenneth
Date of birth
23 February 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Dutchess County, New York
Hometown
Dutchess County, New York

Military service

Service number
32667236
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
413th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 November 1944
Place of death
North of Dürwiss, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 2 35

Immediate family

Members
Philip Lasher (father)
Effie M. (Genthner) Lasher (mother)
Henry E. Lasher (brother)
Veatrice Lasher (sister)
Effie B. Lasher (sister)
Margaret R. (Race) Lasher (wife)
Margaret Lasher (daughter)

More information

Sgt Philip K. Lasher worked for IBM before he enlisted in Albany, New York on 15 December 1942 and trained at Camp Croft where he also served as an instructor there

he is remembered at the Riverview Cemetery in Oxford, Chenango County, New York.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees, www.newspapers.com - Poughkeepsie Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, D. Branham, www.newspapers.com - Poughkeepsie Journal