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Personal info

Full name
TENNANT, Philip Edwin
Date of birth
30 March 1922
Age
23
Place of birth
Mooresville, Monongalia County, West Virginia
Hometown
Eighty Four, Washington County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33403614
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
121st Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
Ruhr pocket, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 18 26

Immediate family

Members
William C. Tennant (father)
Serepta Tennant (mother)
Alma Tennant (sister)
Blondina Tennant (sister)
Rosaline Tennant (sister)
Herbert M. Tennant (brother)
Edwin Tennant (brother)
Cecil R. Tennant (brother)
Eillen Tennant (sister)
Helen Tennant (sister)
Marian J. (Caldwell) Tennant (wife)
Phyllis A. Tennant (daughter)

More information

Pfc Philip E. Tennant was employed at Canonsburg Steel And Iron Works.

He enlisted on 30 November 1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He entered the Army in December 1942 and received his combat training at Camp Phillips, Kan. Prior to taking part in the Normandy beachhead landings and the advancing with his unit through France and into Germany, Pfc Tennant had been stationed in Northern Ireland, following his arrival overseas in December 1943. Besides his parents Pfc Tennant was survived by a young daughter and 5 brothers and 5 sisters.

Source of information:Terry Hirsch, Linda Harden-Lantz, Bjorn Meeuwsen, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/military_2/WWII/1942-army-inducts-258-selectees.html, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census, Washington Reporter Newspaper Washington County Pennsylvania - 1 May 1945, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Washington Reporter Newspaper Washington County Pennsylvania - 1 May 1945