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Personal info

Full name
CAREY, Henry Warder
Date of birth
11 February 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York
Hometown
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Military service

Service number
31266854
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
114th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division,
2nd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
Lunéville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 8 23

Immediate family

Members
Henry R. Carey (father)
Margaret B. (Hodson) Carey (mother)
John Carey (brother)
William B. Carey (brother)
Alida L. Carey (sister)

More information

Sgt. Henry W. Carey graduated from Milton Academy in 1939 and Yale University in December 1942.

He enlisted in Manchester, New Hampshire on 10 February 1943 and was selected for the Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.) and studied at Washington University from 23 August 1943 to 21 March 1944. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

On 15 November, he and his platoon sergeant were sent to silence an enemy machine gun on a railway embankment between Emberménil and Leintrey. He was wounded and died in the 54th Field Hospital, that was set up in Lunéville, France, after the wound became infected.

An annual scholarship award was established in his honor at Milton Academy in 1945.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / New York Birth Index / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Christopher Gadsen, Yale Obituary Review 1944-1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, Seacoastonline.com - 11 April 2019, Portsmouth Athenaeum, Margaret Hodson, Yale University