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Personal info

Full name
EDWARDS, Jessie Horace
Date of birth
4 August 1909
Age
35
Place of birth
Bland, Saline County, Arkansas
Hometown
Los Angeles County, California

Military service

Service number
38697541
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
157th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
24 December 1944
Place of death
Near Utweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 30 42

Immediate family

Members
Sarah J. (Thomas) Edwards (mother)
Ora H. (Talley) Edwards (wife)

More information

Pvt Jessie H. Edwards was a welder before he enlisted in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on 22 April 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Epinal, 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, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – Miami Daily News Record Oklahoma 22 February 1945
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