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Personal info

Full name
CORNISH, Stanley George Jr
Date of birth
5 April 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York
Hometown
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11088789
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 December 1944
Place of death
Near Büderscheid, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 7 7

Immediate family

Members
Stanley G. Cornish (father)
Sarah (Hill) Cornish (mother)

More information

Pvt Stanley G. Cornish Jr. attended college for four years before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Boston, Massachusetts on 8 September 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his stomach.

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 Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. Presbyterian Church Records / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Silvano Theunissen