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Personal info

Full name
DUNFORD, Galvin H
Date of birth
1916
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Virginia
Hometown
Portsmouth, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33225678
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Automatic Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Pont-à-Mousson, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 32 21

Immediate family

Members
Eula M. Dunford (mother)
Gordon H. Dunford (brother)

More information

Pfc Galvin H. Dunford attended 3 years of high school and was a metal worker at the Navy yard before he enlisted in Richmond, Virginia on 21 September 1942.
He is remembered at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suffolk City, Virginia.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / Indiana Marriages/ Kentucky Birth Index, www.80thDivision.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Steve Poole