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Personal info

Full name
SCHULTZ, Ernest Charles
Date of birth
28 December 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Butternut, Ashland County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Butternut, Ashland County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36809557
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Ostheim, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 33 46

Immediate family

Members
Ernest H. Schultz (father)
Anna M. (Jendrny) Schultz (mother)
Donald C. Schultz (brother)
Loraine E. Schultz (sister)
Violet M. Schultz (sister)
William Schultz (brother)
Elaine Schultz (sister)
Arlene Schultz (sister)
Lorraine (Linsmeyer) Schultz (wife)
Ernest Schultz (son)

More information

Sgt Ernest C. Schultz worked on the family farm and at the mill of the Northern Hardwoods Veneer Inc.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / 1930/1940 Census / WWII U.S. Hospital Admission Card, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy