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Personal info

Full name
PREST, James V
Date of birth
31 December 1923
Age
20
Place of birth
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Hometown
Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
42022668
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
1 November 1944
Place of death
Forêt Domaniale de Champ, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 35 54

Immediate family

Members
Martin Prest (father)
Agnes D. Prest (mother)
Mary E. Prest (sister)
Dolores A. Prest (sister)
Noreen E. Prest (sister)

More information

Pfc James V. Prest attended Fosdick-Masten Park High School and was employed by the Houde engineering Division of the Houdaille-Hershey Corporation before he enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 27 August1943. He was sent overseas in February 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his colon.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://36th-id.frb.io, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, www.newspapers.com – The Buffalo News - 26 July 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy