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Personal info

Full name
DAVIS, Harry A Jr
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Illinois
Hometown
Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
16098494
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
2nd Battalion,
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 30 4

Immediate family

Members
Harry A. Davis (father)

More information

Pfc Harry A. Davis Jr. attended the University of Chicago for one year and left in 1942 to enlist into the service.

He volunteered for the Army fo the United States in Chicago, Illinois on 13 July 1942.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: University of Chicago Magazine 1945