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Personal info

Full name
MC WATERS, Earl Alexander
Date of birth
5 January 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31426722
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
Anti-Tank Company,
335th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 4 22

Immediate family

Members
James H. Mc Waters (father)
Valentine B. (Schwitzerlet) Mc Waters (mother)
Maryon Mc Waters (sister)
James H. Mc Waters Jr. (brother)
Emma Mc Waters (sister)
Helen Mc Waters (sister)
Elizabeth A. Mc Waters (wife)

More information

Pvt Earl A. Mc Waters graduated from Boys High School in Atlanta in 1930.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 23 November 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Fosse, Belgium

Source of information: AndrĂ© Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, Allan Wilford Howerton

Photo source: Peter Schouteten