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Personal info

Full name
WEBER, Henry Charles Jr
Date of birth
3 April 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Hometown
Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
32840196
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 December 1944
Place of death
Sierck-les-Bains, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 8 9

Immediate family

Members
Henry C. Weber (father)
Josephine (Latham) Weber (mother)
Howard Weber (brother)
Donald Weber (brother)
Theodore Weber (brother)
Richard Weber (brother)
Robert Weber (brother)
Harry Weber (brother)
Janet E. Weber (sister)
Lillian Weber (sister)
Irene R. (Krah) Weber (wife)
Phyllis Weber (daughter)

More information

S/Sgt Henry C. Weber Jr. attended South Park High School and was employed by the Donner-Hanna Coke Company.

He enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 26 February 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

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 Draft Cards Young Men / Krah Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery