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Personal info

Full name
SISSON, Marshall H
Date of birth
17 April 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
Sidney, Delaware County, New York
Hometown
Otego, Otsego County, New York

Military service

Service number
42123513
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 February 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 32 6

Immediate family

Members
Marietta L. (Dekay) Sisson (mother)
Madia Sisson (sister)
Phyllis Sisson (sister)

More information

Pvt Marshall H. Sisson attended Otego Central School for 3 years and worked on a farm. He was inducted into the Army on 22 August 1944, and went overseas in January.

For the eight years before he entered the service, Marshall had made his home with his uncle and aunt in Otego, NY.
Pvt Marshall H. Sisson was first buried on the Temporary Luxembourg American Cemetery, Luxembourg.

Source of information: Danny van der Groen, Erwin Derhaag, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil - United States Census, 1930, http://www.dcnyhistory.org

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, http://www.dcnyhistory.org