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Personal info

Full name
WILSON, Ernest
Date of birth
1914
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Boston, Massachusetts
Hometown
Broome County, New York

Military service

Service number
6847433
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
142nd Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 December 1944
Place of death
Mittelwihr, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 31 50

Immediate family

Members
Edgar L. Wilson Sr. (father)
Lillian A. (MacPherson) Wilson (mother)
Edgar L. Wilson Jr. (brother)
Georgina Wilson (sister)
Jessie Wilson (wife)
Ernest Wilson Jr. (son)

More information

Pvt Ernest Wilson joined his unit on 9 November 1943. He saw first action in Italy before his unit was sent to France.

He was mortally wounded by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://36th-id.frb.io, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com – Coleman

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Press and Sun Bulletin - 5 January 1945