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Personal info

Full name
WATERLAND, Everett Harry
Date of birth
29 October 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Ismay, Custer County, Montana
Hometown
Corson County, South Dakota

Military service

Service number
37596644
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 8 8

Immediate family

Members
Harry A. B. Waterland (father)
Bertha (Nerenz) Waterland (mother)
Earnest E. Shear (stepfather)
Melvin E. Shear (stepbrother)
Hazel E. Shear (stepsister)
Robert E. Shear (stepbrother)
Lucell M. Shear (stepsister)
Doris B. (Calhoun) Waterland (wife)
Arnold E. Waterland (son)
Evelyn Waterland (daughter)

More information

Pvt Everett H. Waterland's father died in 1920 when Everett was a little boy, and his mother remarried.

He worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad before he enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 16 June 1944.

Source of information: Carla Mans, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / WWII Enlistment Record / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.findagrave.com, http://mva.sd.gov/sdwwiimemorial/subpages/profiles/Display.asp?P=2010

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, The Hartze Family History Book / Britt Davis