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Personal info

Full name
BUSHMAN, Sheldon G
Date of birth
10 January 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Le Roy, Genesee County, New York
Hometown
Batavia, Genesee County, New York

Military service

Service number
12016053
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 September 1944
Place of death
Haraucourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 3 9

Immediate family

Members
Warren A. Bushman (father)
Grace E. (Gilmore) Bushman (mother)
Lysle W. Bushman (brother)
Cola M. Bushman (sister)

More information

Pfc Sheldon G. Bushman was employed at the Wade Coal Company in Batavia.

He joined the Regular Army in Rochester, New York on 3 October 1940. He served in the Panama Canal Zone and Trinidad, British West Indies before he was sent to Europe in December 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his back.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Houghtaling Reisner Family / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
Photo source: -, Gold Star Memorial Book - Genesee County, NY