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Personal info

Full name
WILSEY, Oscar Lee
Date of birth
20 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Alabama
Hometown
Conecuh County, Alabama

Military service

Service number
44050627
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
G 14 31

Immediate family

Members
Murray G. Wilsey (father)
Minnie B. (Middleton) Wilsey (mother)
Murray E. Wilsey (brother)
Ada M. Wilsey (sister)
James H. Wilsey (brother)
Doris E. Wilsey (sister)
Louise Wilsey (brother)
John E. Wilsey (brother)
Robert W. Wilsey (brother)
Florence P. Wilsey (sister)
Gailand M. Wilsey (brother)
Virginia M. (Brown) Wilsey (wife)
Peggy R. Wilsey (daughter)

More information

Pvt Oscar L. Wilsey enlisted in Fort McPherson Atlanta, Georgia on 8 May 1944.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Jones Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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