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Personal info

Full name
GULEY, Albert Andrew
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Binghamton, Broome County, New York

Military service

Service number
6980327
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Soldier's Medal,
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
19 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Munsterbusch-Bussbach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 10 1

Immediate family

Members
Andrew Guley (father)
Annie Guley (mother)
Anni Guley (sister)
Stephen Guley (brother)
Frances Guley (brother)
Paul Guley (brother)
Joseph Guley (brother)
John Guley (brother)
Bernard Guley (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Albert A. Guley attended college and worked in the motion picture business.

He joined the Regular Army on 11 October 1939.

His parents were both born in Slovakia.

The text on the bottom of one picture reads: "Token of tragedy - Mrs. Andrew Guley of 16 Adams Street displays a captured Nazi flag which her son, Staff Sgt. Albert A. Guley, mailed from Germany a few days before he was fatelly wounded. The blood-stained flag bears signatures of numerous fellow soldiers."

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920 Census / Headstone Inscription and Interment Record, www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / www.ancestry.com - ikocik 135