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Personal info

Full name
SANDERS, Harold E
Date of birth
13 May 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Ladoga, Montgomery County, Indiana
Hometown
Boone County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35905558
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
395th Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 March 1945
Place of death
Near Linz, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 10 31

Immediate family

Members
Edward T. Sanders (father)
Emma E. (Taggart) Sanders (mother)
Eula Sanders (sister)
Lois Sanders (sister)
Hazel Sanders (sister)
Jessie Sanders (sister)
Williams L. Sanders (brother)

More information

Pvt Harold E. Sanders worked on a farm before he enlisted in Indianapolis, Indiana on 29 July 1944.

Pvt Harold E. Sanders is remembered at the Ladoga Cemetery in Ladoga, Montgomery County, Indiana.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov -
WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Location / Taggart Family Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philipett / Thomas Clark / R & S Fine