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Personal info

Full name
WOODWARD, William Burdell
Date of birth
1915
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Pennsylvania
Hometown
Paulsboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42117995
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
385th Infantry Regiment,
76th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 March 1945
Place of death
East of Karl, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 2 58

Immediate family

Members
Mary E. (Bowers) Woodward (wife)
Leater Woodward (son)
Ronnie Woodward (son)

More information

Pvt William B. Woodward was married to Mary Ellen Bowers in 1935.

He enlisted at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 26 April 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Records / New Jersey Marriage Index 1901-2016
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - LuxAmCem, Mary Peterson