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Personal info

Full name
ALBERT, Stephen Edgar
Date of birth
31 March 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Troy, Rensselaer County, New York
Hometown
Watervliet, Albany County, New York

Military service

Service number
32576212
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
18 January 1945
Place of death
Hatten, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 6 55

Immediate family

Members
George H. Albert (father)
Pearl M. (Dunham) Albert (mother)
George K. Albert (brother)
Donald H. Albert (brother)
Andrew F. Albert (brother)
Antoinette F. Albert (sister)

More information

Stephen E. Albert graduated from Watervliet High School and worked for the J. J. Heinz Company in Albany before he enlisted in Albany, New York on 9 October 1942.

He died in a field hospital to the effects of artillery shell fragments in his skull.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Dunham Diamond Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton, www.newspapers.com – The Troy Record 9 February 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.newspapers.com – The Troy Record 9 February 1945