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Personal info

Full name
GREENAN, Charles Francis
Date of birth
27 November 1906
Age
37
Place of birth
Ford County, Illinois
Hometown
Will County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36323539
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
47th Armored Infantry Battalion,
5th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
16 September 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 8 24

Immediate family

Members
Oliver Greenan (father)
Daisy Greenan (mother)
Mary Greenan (sister)
Elizabeth Greenan (sister)
Bessie Greenan (sister)
Freida Greenan (wife)

More information

Charlie Greenan graduated from PaxtonHigh School in 1926 where he was the Senior Class president. He owned a hatchery business with his wife when he enlisted in March 1942 at Camp Grant, Illinois.

T/Sgt Charles F. Greenan first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Fosse, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.5ad.org, www.ancestry.com - 1920 census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

Photo source: Jac Engels, Paxton Carnegie Library / Paxton Year Book - 1926