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Personal info

Full name
HIGGINS, Jack O
Date of birth
27 September 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33408800
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
15th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of La Salle, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 31 51

Immediate family

Members
Charles E. Higgins (father)
Matilda R. (Brown) Higgins (mother)
Nellie Higgins (sister)
Fanny Higgins (sister)
Charles R. Higgins (brother)
Dorothy M. Higgins (sister)
Ruth Higgins (sister)
George R. Higgins (brother)
Helen M. Parker (half-sister)

More information

Sgt Jack O. Higgins attended college for three years and worked in the machine shop of the W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company, before he enlisted in Erie, Pennsylvania on 31 December 1942.

In January 1944, in Italy, he was wounded by artillery shell fragments at his buttock and hip. He was discharged from the hospital in March 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire in his neck.

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