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Personal info

Full name
SMART, Harold Haskell
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Redfield, Oswego County, New York

Military service

Service number
12016676
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 September 1944
Place of death
Brandscheid, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 8 33

Immediate family

Members
James Smart (father)
Nora Smart (mother)
James Smart (brother)
George Smart (brother)
Esther Smart (sister)
Alice Smart (sister)
Mary Smart (sister)

More information

Pfc Harold H. Smart joined the Regular Army in Syracuse, New York on 16 October 1940 and spent 37 months in Panama before he was sent overseas in the spring of 1944.

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

Source of information: Danny van der Groen, Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org - The Pulaski Democrat

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet