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Personal info

Full name
WOLFORD, Emile Dewain
Date of birth
11 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Capon Bridge, Hampshire County, West Virginia
Hometown
Prince George County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33906818
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
Schwalmtal-Boisheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 10 14

Immediate family

Members
Edgar C. Wolford (father)
Mary E. (McDonald) Wolford (mother)
Ruziski M. Wolford (sister)
Ruth E. Wolford (wife)

More information

Pvt Emile D. Wolford graduated from Mount Rainer High School in Maryland. He was employed at the U.S. Navy yard in Washington, D.C.

He enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 24 July 1944 and was sent overseas in January 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/, Baltimore Sun - 29 March 1945, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet