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Personal info

Full name
FULLER, Edward Kidder
Date of birth
30 May 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Bristol County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31371337
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
9 December 1944
Place of death
Saarlouis, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 41 20

Immediate family

Members
William E. Fuller (Father)
Ethel W. (Kidder) Fuller (mother)
William E. Fuller Jr. (brother)
Elizabeth H. Fuller (sister)
John C. Fuller (brother)
Diana Fuller (sister)

More information

Pfc Edward K. Fuller graduated in 1943 from Phillips Exeter Academy where he was active in theater, track and swimming.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 August 1943 and trained at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was selected for the Army Specialized Training Program and studied at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. After the program was abandoned he trained at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Wentz Family Tree / 1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, Daniel Sheehan Fall River Main Library - Fall River Herald News 27 December 1944
Photo source: Daniel Sheehan Fall River Main Library - Fall River Herald News 27 December 1944