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Personal info

Full name
PETITT, Albert Emory
Date of birth
11 January 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia
Hometown
Nelson County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33858140
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
302nd Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
2 February 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 14 21

Immediate family

Members
Austin K. Petitt (father)
Edith (Havener) Petitt (mother)
Dorothy Petitt (sister)

More information

Pvt Albert E. Petitt attended high school for 4 years and was a Machinist.

He enlisted in Richmond, Virginia on 7 August 1944.

He was first buried at Block I, Row 3, Grave 51.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Campbell Quigley Family Tree / 1940 Census / Virginia, Birth Records

Photo source: Jac Engels