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Personal info

Full name
CECIL, Terry J
Date of birth
28 June 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Ashland, McDowell County, West Virginia
Hometown
McDowell County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35643881
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
605th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
2 May 1945
Place of death
Eldena, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 7 3

Immediate family

Members
Charles B. Cecil (father)
Willie L. (Bailey) Cecil (mother)
Myrtle Cecil (sister)
Edna Cecil (sister)
Mildred Cecil (sister)
Dina Cecil (sister)
Mary Cecil (sister)
James Cecil (brother)
Ollie Cecil (brother)
Basil Cecil (brother)
Dorothy (Bailey) Cecil (wife)
Terry L. Cecil (son)

More information

Pfc Terry J. Cecil was employed by the Ashland Coal and Coke company at Ashland.

He enlisted Huntington, West Virginia on 12 December 1942 and was sent overseas in December 1944.

Pfc Cecil was killed in a vehicle accident.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Enlistment Record / National Archives, ABMC, National Archives, WWII Memorial, Find a Grave www.ancestry.com - 1930 census / West Virginia Marriages / Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree, West Virginia Memory Project, www.newspaperarchive.com - Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, www.newspaperarchive.com - Bluefield Daily Telegraph