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Personal info

Full name
HESKETH, Wallace
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Massachusettes
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20101614
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 January 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 13 11

Immediate family

Members
Wallace Hesketh (father)
Lillian H. (Whittle) Hesketh (mother)
Stanley Hesketh (brother)
Lillian Hesketh (sister)

More information

Pvt Wallace Hesketh joined the National Guard in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 January 1941.
He attended high school for 4 years and was a clerk general office before he enlisted.
He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Foy, Belgium Block C, Row 3, Grave 68.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Hesketh Family Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks - Somerville High School 1938