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Personal info

Full name
MESSENGER, Earle Burton
Date of birth
3 April 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Chicopee Falls, Hampden County, Massachusett
Hometown
Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31039000
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 January 1945
Place of death
Near Doncols, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 13 16

Immediate family

Members
Earle C. Messenger (father)
Elsie E. (Jahn) Messenger (mother)
Verna P. Messenger (sister)
Eunice Messenger (sister)
Ronald E. Messenger (brother)
Doris P. Messenger (sister)
Clifton W. Messenger (brother)

More information

Pfc Earle B. Messenger attended high school for two years and was employed at the Town of Tolland before he enlisted in Springfield, Massachusetts on 14 March 1941.

He was killed by small arms fire in the head.

He is also remembered at the Pine Hill Cemetery in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Verna Bittles, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Anne Cestors / Silvano Theunissen, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Marlana Giglio Ambridge, www.wwiimemorial.com - Verna Bittles