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Personal info

Full name
FRAZIER, William Ransom Jr
Date of birth
17 February 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina
Hometown
Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34775115
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
47th Tank Battalion,
14th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Near Herrlisheim, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
William R. Frazier (father)
Iva (Snyder) Frazier (mother)
Thomas E. Frazier (brother)
Margaret Frazier (sister)
Mary Frazier (sister)
Marion Frazier (brother)
Nina Frazier (sister)

More information

Pfc William R. Frazier Jr. graduated from Waynesville High School in 1943 and was a metal worker.

He enlisted at Camp Croft, South Carolina on 19 May 1943.

Pfc Frazier is remembered at the Green Hill Cemetery in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com – Richard Jordan / William Wayne Metcalf, www.ancestry.com – 1940 Census, http://14thad.org, www.newspapers.com – Asheville Citizen Times North Carolina 30 December 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel / Richard Jordan, Waynesville High School 1943