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Personal info

Full name
PERRY, Manuel
Date of birth
1915
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Massachusetts
Hometown
Bristol County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31236750
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
Gros-Réderching, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
G 14 19

Immediate family

Members
Beatrice R. Perry (sister)

More information

Pvt Manuel Perry enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 27 November 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his neck.

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.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division

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