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Personal info

Full name
HESSON, Herbert Walter
Date of birth
1908
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan
Hometown
Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36894519
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
358th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 December 1944
Place of death
Oberlimberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 43 27

Immediate family

Members
John W. Hesson (father)
Bessie L. (Sweet) Hesson (mother)
Dorothy J. (Langolf) Hesson (wife)

More information

Sgt Herbert W. Hesson was employed by the United Trucking Company before he enlisted on 6 January 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Mary Slater Mills Working Family Tree, www.newspapers.com - The Times Herald Michigan - 29 December 1944
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