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Personal info

Full name
MORSS, Franklin Crawford III
Date of birth
21 July 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
13200057
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 September 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 7 55

Immediate family

Members
Franklin C. Morss II (father)
Katharine E. (Johnson) Morss (mother)

More information

Pfc Franklin C. Morss III was a Germantown Friends School varsity football player and graduated from this school in June, 1943.

He joined the Regular Army in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 20 July 1943. He trained at Fort Knox, Ky., and went overseas early in the spring of 1944.

Pfc Morss was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Fosse, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Veteran Compensation Application Files, www.newspapers.com - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet