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Personal info

Full name
COLLINS, Chester Edmund
Date of birth
4 December 1908
Age
36
Place of birth
Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31430385
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
168th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 March 1945
Place of death
Near St. Goar, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 4 4

Immediate family

Members
James P. Collins (father)
Annie M. (Coste) Collins (mother)
James L. Collins (brother)
Alice G. (Varnum) Collins (wife)
Thelma J. Collins (daughter)
Robert P. Collins (son)
Chester E. Collins Jr. (son)

More information

Pvt Chester E. Collins attended high school for one year and was employed at the Early American & English Furniture Company before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 14 January 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Snediker Family Tree / 1940 Census
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery