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Personal info

Full name
EGGLEFIELD, William Robert
Date of birth
18 December 1924
Age
19
Place of birth
Elizabethtown, Essex County, New York
Hometown
Elizabethtown, Essex County, New York

Military service

Service number
32942379
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Ferdrup, Rupt-sur-Moselle, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 9 39

Immediate family

Members
Percy T. Egglefield (father)
Kathalynn C. (Poole) Egglefield (mother)
John H. Egglefield (brother)

More information

Sgt William R. Egglefield attended high school for three years.

He enlisted in Utica, New York on 26 July 1943.

He was killed by small arms fire.

He is remembered on a monument in Rupt, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / U.S.WWII Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
Photo source: www.findgrave.com - Andy