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Personal info

Full name
EDGECOMBE, Howard Wade
Date of birth
7 March 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Rhode Island
Hometown
Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31003546
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
35th Tank Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Arracourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 19 12

Immediate family

Members
William Edgecombe (father)
Lottie Edgecombe (mother)
Frank Edgecombe (brother)
Charlotte Edgecombe (sister)
Barbara I. (Brownell) Edgecombe (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Howard W. Edgecombe enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 6 February 1941.

He was married to Barbara Irene Brownell in 194.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Saint James, France.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Lopez Family Tree / Headstone and Interment Records / Rhode Island, Births, 1636-1930

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Silvano Theunissen