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Personal info

Full name
STEARNS, Sidney Edward
Date of birth
10 May 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Hometown
Washington County, Arkansas

Military service

Service number
38598890
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
66th Armored Regiment,
2nd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 September 1944
Place of death
Northeast of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 7 9

Immediate family

Members
Sidney S. Stearns (father)
Mattie E. (Davis) Stearns (mother)
Charles S. Stearns (brother)
Ralph S. Stearns (brother)
Elizabeth M. Stearns (sister)
Nellie M. Stearns (sister)

More information

Pvt Sidney E. Stearns enlisted in Little Rock,
Arkansas on 3 November 1943.

He was a graduate of University High School, and received his diploma in absentia in June, 1944. He trained at Fort Knox, Ky, and Fort Meade, Md. He went to England in May and to France in July, 1944. He was killed while fighting to relieve the trapped "Red Devils", British paratroopers surrounded in Holland by the Germans.

Pvt Sidney E. Stearns was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Fosse,
Belgium Block E, Row 9, Grave 172.

Source of information: 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 / Jewett Family Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, Sylvano Theunissen