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LANGEVIN, Alfred Thomas - Date of
birth
3 March 1915 -
Age
30 - Place of
birth
Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts -
Hometown
Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
31431740 -
Rank
Private -
Function
unknown -
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
109th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
7 November 1945 - Place of
death
Hürtgen, Hürtgen Forest, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten -
Walls of the Missing
* This soldier has been accounted for. A rosette has been placed next to his name.
Immediate family
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Members
Alfred E. Langevin (father)
Elizabeth R. (Morris) Langevin (mother)
Irene E. Langevin (sister)
Margaret Langevin (sister)
Helena F. (McGrath) Langevin (wife)
Mary E. Langein (daughter)
More information
Pvt Alfred T. Langevin was a retail manager.He was married to Helena McGrath in 1940 and his daughter was one year of age when he went missing.
He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 31 January 1944.
He and four other men were sent on a reconnaissance patrol and were not seen again.
He was declared officially dead one day and one year after he was reported missing in action.
Following the end of hostilities, American Graves Registration Command personnel recovered a set of remains from the woods in the area where Langevin was lost. All identification efforts were unsuccessful, and in May 1949, the remains were declared unidentifiable and interred at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium.
In June 2021, DPAA disinterred this set of remains and transferred it to the laboratory for analysis. Using modern forensic techniques, scientists then identified Langevin.
Pvt Langevin is remembered at the Immaculate Conception Grotto Memorial, the Columbian Square Memorial and the War Memorial Wall.
Pvt Langevin has been given his final resting place at Fairmount Cemetery in Weymouth, Massachussetts on 10 November 2025.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Sophie Vleugels, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1940 Census, The Boston Globe - 25 November 1945, 5 November 1946, 4 September 1972, IDPF of Howard B. Fladd
Photo source: Peter Schouteten