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Personal info

Full name
OLMSTEAD, George A
Date of birth
1925
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Rhode Island
Hometown
Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine

Military service

Service number
31400397
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
4 October 1944
Place of death
England

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 20 67

Immediate family

Members
Howard A. Olmstead (father)
Margaret E. (McChrystal) Olmstead (mother)
Rita A. Olmstead (sister)
Joseph H. Olmstead (brother)
Vincent Olmstead (brother)
Margaret M. Olmstead (sister)

More information

Pvt George A. Olmstead attended Falmouth High School fbefore he enlisted in Portland, Maine on 27 December 1943.

He was wounded by artillery shell fragments the previous day and died in a base hospital in England.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://36th-id.frb.io, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Streeter Family Tree, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, www.newspapers.com – Portland Press Herald - 31 October 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / The Annual Yearbook