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Personal info

Full name
SPROULE, Peter Stuyvesant Wilson
Date of birth
7 July 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Port Chester, Westchester County, New York
Hometown
Litchfield County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
31382534
Rank
Private
Function
Tank Driver
Unit
771st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 February 1945
Place of death
Near Erkelenz, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 16 14

Immediate family

Members
Eric R. Sproule (father)
Nancy Sproule (mother)

More information

Pvt Peter S. W. Sproule attended Peekskill Academy.

He enlisted in Hartford, Connecticut on 24 September 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful Dutchman, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census, www.fold3.com - WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, Ben Himmelfard - White Plains Library; The Rye Chronicles - 8 June 1945