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Personal info

Full name
FITZSIMMONS, Harry Merrill
Date of birth
4 September 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Big Flats, Chemung County, New York
Hometown
Corning, Steuben County, New York

Military service

Service number
12015877
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Vossenack, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 6 7

Immediate family

Members
Harry M. Fitzsimmons (father)
Charlotte (Syler) Fitzsimmons (mother)
Maude W. Fitzsimmons (sister)
Andrew Fitzsimmons (brother)
Frederick Fitzsimmons (brother)
Emily Fitzsimmons (sister)
George H. Fitzsimmons (brother)
Joseph Fitzsimmons (brother)
Harold Fitzsimmons (brother)
Lydia A. Fitzsimmons (sister)
Roy Fitzsimmons (brother)

More information

T/Sgt Harry M. Fitzsimmons worked on a farm before he joined the Regular Army in Elmira, New York on 17 October 1940.

T/Sgt Fitzsimmons brother, Sgt. Harold Fitzsimmons was killed in June 1944 and is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / Family Trees, WWII Draft Cards

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Brenda K. Baker