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Personal info

Full name
CAMPBELL, Hugh M
Date of birth
13 January 1922
Age
23
Place of birth
Anderson County, Tennessee
Hometown
Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34490998
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
414th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 April 1945
Place of death
Bitterfeld, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 18 19

Immediate family

Members
Leonard Campbell (father)
Nancy (Miller) Campbell (mother)
Mitchell Campbell (brother)
Haskell Campbell (brother)
Lena Campbell (sister)
Edgar Campbell (brother)
Marie Campbell (sister)
Bernice Campbell (sister)

More information

T/Sgt Hugh M. Campbell was a construction worker.

He enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 3 November 1942.

T/Sgt Campbell was initailly buried at the Temporary American Cemetery of Breuna # 1, Germany on 23 April 1945.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Kelly Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.findagrave.com - Richard van Bernebeek, IDPF

Photo source: Des Philippet, www.findagrave.com, Edward H. Powers, nephew of Jerome J. Handman / Ken Hodge, nephew of Wilfred L. Hodge