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Personal info

Full name
TRIPP, Enoch Leroy
Date of birth
26 January 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho
Hometown
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31422148
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
41st Armored Infantry Regiment,
2nd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
Heerlen, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 14 7

Immediate family

Members
Chester B. Tripp (father)
Minnie (Gehring) Tripp (mother)
Julia A. Tripp (sister)
Beatrice J. Tripp (sister)
Alta L. Tripp (sister)
Chester B. Tripp (brother)
June Matthews (first wife)
Joyce L. Tripp (daughter)
Paul L. Tripp (son)
Anna R. (Lundin) Tripp (second wife)
John Tripp (son)
Sylvia A. (Dayton) Tripp (daughter)
Gloria Tripp (daughter)

More information

Pvt Enoch L. Tripp enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 23 September 1943.

He died of his wounds in the 111th Evacuation Hospital on 20 November 1944, after having been wounded two days before. The division was fighting in the vicinity of Gereonsweiler, Germany, on the day he was wounded.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Carla Mans, Individual Deceased Personnel File, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1920 Census / WWII Enlistment Record / Montana County Marriage / Social Security Applications and Claims / Family Trees, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report CCA, www.findagrave.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Sylvia A. Tripp Dayton (daughter)