Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
GRAY, Harry Cyrus II
Date of birth
20 March 1914
Age
31
Place of birth
Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34934529
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Gunner
Unit
54th Armored Infantry Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 March 1945
Place of death
Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 6 87

Immediate family

Members
Harry C. Gray (father)
Ethel (Wheeler) Gray (mother)
Elizabeth B. Gray (sister)
Gertrude A. (Sprunk) Gray (wife)
Elizabeth E. Gray (daughter)
Harry C. Gray III (son)

More information

Pfc Harry C. Gray II attended high school for one year and was a fireman and was employed in the city gas department and on off-duty hours he also worked as a life guard at the Spa Beach before he enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 22 July 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – Elizabeth E. Gray Hendricks / Harry Gray, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.10tharmored.com, www.findagrave.com – Dolores Maxwell, www.newspapers.com – Tampa Bay Times 1 June 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery / Dolores Maxwell