Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
PETERSON, Gilbert H
Date of birth
26 July 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Contra Costa County, California
Hometown
Reno County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37725969
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
329th Infantry Regiment,
83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 January 1945
Place of death
Honvelez, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 6 33

Immediate family

Members
Bessie I. (Beck) Peterson (mother)
Dorothy P. Peterson (sister)

More information

Pvt Gilbert H. Peterson attended high school for four years and was a butcher at the Greenwood Grocery in Hutchinson.

He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 5 November 1943.

Pvt Gilbert H. Peterson was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Foy, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov
- WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, http://83rdinfdivdocs.org - After Action Report, California Birth Index, 1905-1995; Wichita, Kansas Library - WWII Memorial booklet "Published by Bob Campbell Post no. 1361, Veterans of Foreign War"

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Wichita, Kansas Library - WWII Memorial booklet "Published by Bob Campbell Post no. 1361, Veterans of Foreign War, Facebook