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Personal info

Full name
GRIFFIN, William Zeno
Date of birth
1911
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Alabama
Hometown
Midway, Monroe County, Alabama

Military service

Service number
6924713
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
3rd Tank Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 March 1945
Place of death
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 9 27

Immediate family

Members
William S. Griffin (father)
Josephine (Wallace) Griffin (mother)
Mae B. (Littles) Griffin (wife)

More information

S/Sgt William Z. Griffin worked on a farm before he joined the Regular Army at Fort Benning, Georgia on 6 August 1940.

He was killed due to burns to his body.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pinkerton Lewis Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.10tharmored.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery