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Personal info

Full name
MATTISON, Gordon P
Date of birth
21 September 1908
Age
36
Place of birth
Stoney Creek, Warren County, New York
Hometown
Glen Falls, Warren County, New York

Military service

Service number
42115018
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 December 1944
Place of death
Leiffarth, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 21 26

Immediate family

Members
Walter Mattison (father)
Florence (Flewelling) Mattison (mother)
Helena Mattison (sister)
Nellie Mattison (sister)
Franklin Mattison (brother)
Ida E. (Bennet) Mattison (wife)
Florence Mattison (daughter)
Gordon P. Mattison Jr. (son)
Robert Mattison (son)
Walter Mattison (son)

More information

Pvt Gordon P. Mattison was a truck driver with the J. W. Singleton Coal Company.

He enlisted at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 8 April 1944. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He died of wounds, suffered a day earlier.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - New York, State Census, 1915 / Mattison Family Tree / U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/, The Post Star 19 December 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Ralph Peeters, The Mattison Family