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Full name
HOWARD, Warren David
Date of birth
29 November 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
Hampton, Washington County, New York
Hometown
Washington County, New York

Military service

Service number
32042510
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
38th Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 November 1944
Place of death
Nederweerterdijk, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
N 6 16

Immediate family

Members
Fred W. Howard (father)
Alice M. (Branch) Howard (mother)
Ella Howard (stepmother)
Wilbur C. Howard (brother)
Iona Howard (sister)
Clayton Howard (brother)
Ruth Howard (wife)

More information

Pvt Warren D. Howard enlisted in albany, New York on 14 February 1941. He was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, Camp Dorn, Mississippi and Fort G. Meade, Maryland.


He is commemorated on a monument unveiled in Ospel, the Netherlands on 6 November 2019 in memory of the American soldiers who fell during the liberation of the town.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1920 Census / U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index 1936-2007, http://www.7tharmddiv.org/index.htm, 1925 New York Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, 7tharmddiv.org