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Personal info

Full name
SEEGER, Edwin Ingersoll
Date of birth
30 January 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Lincoln, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11083283
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
18th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 December 1944
Place of death
Near Winterscheid, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
A 18 50

Immediate family

Members
Frederic Seeger (father)
Dorothy Seeger (mother)
Mary K. Seeger (sister)

More information

Sgt Edwin Seeger graduated from Concord High School.

He with three other men were occupying the most advance post of their squadron when the Germans overran their position. He was fatally wounded while defending his position against overwhelming odds near Winterscheid, Germany, in the St. Vith sector on the first day of the Battle of the Bulge.

Edwin I. Seeger is remembered at Summer Street Cemetery in Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire.

Source of information: Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbook / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Annamarie Bailey, U.S. School Yearbook