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Personal info

Full name
STANLEY, Oscar
Date of birth
14 February 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Tennessee
Hometown
Pine Hill, Scott County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
O1998413
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
18th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 January 1945
Place of death
Montenau, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 6 49

Immediate family

Members
Silas L. Stanley (father)
Hettie (Reed) Stanley (mother)
Walter Stanley (brother)
Beatrice Stanley (sister)
Conrad Stanley (brother)
Eldridge Stanley (brother)
Bertie L. Stanley (sister)
Duerd Stanley (brother)
Herstel Stanley (brother)
Gertrude Stanley (sister)
Lena M. (England) Stanley (wife)

More information

2nd Lt Oscar Stanley had enlisted in New York in February 1940 and was sent overseas in July 1942. He received a battlefield commission in November 1944.

He was awarded the Silver Star Medal a first time in Tunisia and a second time in Sicily.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - various family trees / 1930/1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, primary sentinels of memory Marcel and Mathilde Schmetz, The Birmingham News 28 March 1945