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Personal info

Full name
LUNSFORD, Albert Wayne
Date of birth
16 August 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Knightsville, Clay County, Indiana
Hometown
Lees Summit, Jackson County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37744181
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
314th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 January 1945
Place of death
Cherbourg-Octeville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 17 20

Immediate family

Members
James W. Lunsford (father)
Clara E. (Wood) Lunsford (mother)
Ina M. Lunsford (sister)
Roy D. Lunsford (brother)
Mary F. Lunsford (sister)
Hazel B. Lunsford (sister)
James R. Lunsford (brother)
Clara A. Lunsford (sister)
Charles W. Lunsford (brother)
Robert L. Lunsford (brother)
Thomas W. Lunsford (brother)
Rosa N. (Mahan) Lunsford (wife)
James W. Lunsford (son)

More information

Pvt Albert W. Lunsford attended high school for four years and was employed at the A. O. Thompson Lumber Company before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 25 May 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

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 / Sneddon Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 314th Infantry Regiment, www.findagrave.com - Albert Ledoux
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy