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Personal info

Full name
BECK, Ellis Atwood
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
11079343
Rank
Private
Function
Medical Aidman
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 November 1944
Place of death
Maizières-lès-Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 7 59

Immediate family

Members
William H. Beck (father)
Edith C. Beck (mother)
Robert Beck (brother)
William H. Beck (brother)

More information

Pvt Ellis A. Beck attended the University of Connecticut as part of the Class of 1944.

He volunteered for the U.S. Army in Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 9 March 1943.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Limey, France.

He is remembered at the Center Cemetery in Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Connecticut with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.findagrave.com - David
Photo source: -, www.findagrave.com - Sue / David 1940 High School Yearbook