Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
WEBBER, Horace Gilbert
Date of birth
4 July 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Norwood, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31372551
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
117th Infantry Regiment,
30th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 November 1944
Place of death
Hoengen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 6 6

Immediate family

Members
Edgar Webber (father)
Margaret A. (Colburt) Webber (mother)
Elliot Webber (brother)
Preston J. Webber (brother)
Doris C. Webber (sister)
Edgar Webber Jr. (brother)
Margaret Webber (sister)
Phyllis Webber (sister)
Russel H. Webber (brother)
Kenneth Webber (brother)
Margaret (Maguire) Webber (wife)

More information

Pvt Horace G. Webber attended high school for one year and was employed as a Machine Tender at Bird & Son Incorporated.
He was one of five brothers in the service during WWII. Russell, a fleet Marine, was wounded in the Palau invasion. Preston was with the amphibious engineers in New Guinea. Kenneth was stationed in het US at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane Island, Indiana and Edgar, an aerial engineer served in the Italian theater.

Source of information: Yvonne Fransen, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, NARA, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - Webber Family Tree, www.oldhickory30th.com, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - GT