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Personal info

Full name
WEIGEL, Albert Theodore
Date of birth
3 January 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas
Hometown
Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37704111
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
8th Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
Gey, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 17 22

Immediate family

Members
John J. Weigel (father)
Elizabeth M. (Storm) Weigel (mother)
Valentine J. Weigel (brother)
Richard Weigel (brother)
Raymond G. Weigel (brother)
Edmund Weigel (brother)
Richard L. Weigel (brother)
Frank R. Weigel (brother)
Mary E. Weigel (sister)
Edmund J. Weigel (brother)
Philamina Weigel (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Albert T. Weigel enlisted in Denver Colorado on 3 August 1943.

He worked on a farm before he enlisted.

He is remembered at the Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Ellis, Ellis county, Kansas.

Source of information: Danny van der Groen, Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel

Photo source: Henri Hannon, www.findagrave.com - Milejo