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Personal info

Full name
PETERS, William Lange
Date of birth
6 October 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33847375
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 October 1944
Place of death
Near Emberménil, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 21 6

Immediate family

Members
Ira W. Peters (father)
Mary M. (Kunkle) Peters (mother)
Hazel M. Peters (sister)
Howard W. Peters (brother)
Walter A. Peters (brother)
Horace G. Peters (brother)
Catherine (Prefling) Peters (wife)
Joyce E. Peters (daughter)

More information

Pvt William L. Peters attended college and was employed at the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Pennsylvania before he enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 23 March 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / MacDonald Family Tree / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application File WWII / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 79th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy