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Personal info

Full name
WATKINS, Howard George
Date of birth
5 September 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Cheltenham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33471834
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
302nd Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 January 1945
Place of death
Nennig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 13 38

Immediate family

Members
Howard H. Watkins (father)
Dorothy D. (Stark) Watkins (mother)
Laura Watkins (sister)
Almon Watkins (brother)

More information

Sgt Howard G. Watkins graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1940 and was employed at the Henry Disston Saw Mills.

He enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 30 November 1942.

Sgt Howard Watkins is remembered at Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, http://www.94thinfdiv.com, www.findagrave.com - Shiva

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Michael Shelmet