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Personal info

Full name
DAVIS, Mortimer Arnold
Date of birth
8 June 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Brooklyn County, New York
Hometown
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Military service

Service number
32024776
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
120th Infantry Regiment,
30th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 January 1945
Place of death
Baugnez-Geromont, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 7 14

Immediate family

Members
Frederick Davis (father)
Florence (McGinley) Davis (mother)
Dorothea Davis (sister)
Marjorie Davis (sister)
Mary A. (Murphy) Davis (wife)

More information

Sgt Mortimer A. Davis graduated from James Madison High School. He worked for the medical supply department of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

He enlisted in Jamaica, New York on 5 March 1941.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Davis Family Tree, www.oldhickory30th.com, www.30thinfantry.org, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) - 16 March 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), They Speak - The Voices of Henri-Chapelle