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Personal info

Full name
MEALS, George Robert
Date of birth
4 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33284212
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
26 March 1945
Place of death
Stalag 2A Neubrandenburg Mecklenberg 53-13
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 30 20

Immediate family

Members
Floyd J. Meals (father)
Mathilda (Dummer) Meals (mother)
Samuel H. Meals (brother)
Raymond Meals (brother)
Esther Meals (sister)
Ruth Meals ( sister)
Melvin Meals (brother)
Dorothy Meals (sister)
William Meals (brother)
Carolyn M. Meals (sister)
Eleanor (Ferris) Meals (wife)

More information

Pfc George R. Meals attended Washington and Jefferson College.

He enlisted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 17 July 1942.

He was first buried at Block S, Row 8, Grave 196.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census / WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten