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Personal info

Full name
MORRIS, Grady C
Date of birth
30 June 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Mustang Prairie, Grimes County, Texas
Hometown
Harris County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38247702
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 January 1945
Place of death
Beho, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 16 28

Immediate family

Members
Floyd E. Morris (father)
Ella N. (Williams) Morris (mother)
Cleo Morris (sister)
Garvin Morris (brother)
Roland E. Morris (brother)
Mavice J. Morris (sister)
Dorothy (Hanes) Morris (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Grady C. Morris attended Bedias High School before he enlisted in Houston, Texas on 24 November 1942.

S/Sgt Morris was killed by small arms fire in his right side.

Source of information: www.wwiimemorial.com, NARA, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Grimes County, Texas