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Personal info

Full name
SHEARER, Harold Alexander
Date of birth
3 August 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Cumberland, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
20323186
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
6th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 February 1945
Place of death
Near Waxweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 3 26

Immediate family

Members
Paul L. Shearer (father)
Alice I. (Brickner) Shearer (mother)
Myra J. Shearer (sister)
Paul L. Shearer Jr. (brother)
Richard E. Shearer (brother)
Margaret L. Shearer (sister)

More information

T/4 Harold A. Shearer attended high school for four years before he joined the National Guard in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on 17 February 1941.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Tam's Family Tree, www.findagrave.com - Coleman
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Labi, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Young American Patriots