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Personal info

Full name
WHITEHEAD, Fred Warren
Date of birth
12 January 1914
Age
31
Place of birth
Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Hometown
Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Military service

Service number
38524833
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
Medical Detachment,
30th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
2 February 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 40 5

Immediate family

Members
Warren C. Whitehead (father)
Sue E. (Herrington) Whitehead (mother)
Ernest Whitehead (brother)
Pearlie Whitehead (sister)
Bertha L. Whitehead (sister)
Carl Whitehead (brother)
Odell Whitehead (sister)
Ray Whitehead (brother)
Belma Whitehead (brother)
Ellis Whitehead (sister)
Elsie Whitehead (sister)
Una M. Whitehead (wife)
Bonnie M. Whitehead (daughter)
Frank W. Whitehead (son)
Jack S. Whitehead (son)
Joseph W. Whitehead (son)
Cindy W. Whitehead (daughter)
James C. Whitehead (son)

More information

Pfc Fred W. Whitehead attended high school for four years and worked on the family farm.

He enlisted in Shreveport, Louisiana on 22 March 1944 and was sent overseas on 12 October.

For his actions on 26 November 1944, in France, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

He was wounded in action in January 1945 by artillery shell fragments in the abdomen. The exact location where he died is not known.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy