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Personal info

Full name
CORMIER, Howard Leland
Date of birth
16 March 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Bristol, Addison County, Vermont
Hometown
Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont

Military service

Service number
31403038
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
143rd Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 October 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bruyères, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 12 36

Immediate family

Members
Alfred Cormier (father)
Delia (Booska) Cormier (mother)
Ella M. Cormier (sister)
Rose M. Cormier (sister)
Ralph Cormier (brother)
John J. Cormier (brother)
Irvin E. Cormier (brother)
Harold A. Cormier (brother)
Clarence Cormier (brother)
George A. Cormier (half-brother)
William W. Cormier (half-brother)
Elizabeth A. (Seeley) Cormier (wife)
Douglas H. Cormier (son)

More information

Pvt Howard L. Cormier was married to Elizabeth Alice Seeley on 6 July 1936.

He enlisted in Rutland, Vermont on 26 October 1943.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men 1940-1947 / Vermont Birth Records 1909-2008 / 143rd-October-1944-to-end.pdf / https://36th-id.frb.io
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Dwight "Andy" Anderson, Nancy Jo