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Personal info

Full name
REID, Harold E
Date of birth
1925
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Georgia
Hometown
Winfield, Columbia County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
34830029
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
357th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 March 1945
Place of death
Brodenbach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 5 63

Immediate family

Members
Brantley A. Reid (father)
Mary V. (Baston) Reid (mother)
Susie Reid (sister)
Sarah M. Reid (sister)
Louise A. Reid (sister)
Brantley A. Reid (brother)
Helen M. Reid (sister)
Carlton F. Reid (brother)
Bennie C. Reid (brother)
Mary E. Reid (sister)

More information

Pvt Harold E. Reid worked on a farm before he enlisted at Fort McPherson, Georgia on 21 October 1943.

He was killed by a sniper as he was assisting several comrades in preparation of an expected enemy counter attack.

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 / Sherry Morris Family Tree / 1940 Census, Augusta Chronicle - 27 April 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery