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Personal info

Full name
GAMBLE, William Carl
Date of birth
16 January 1923
Age
22
Place of birth
Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Hamlin, Monroe County, New York

Military service

Service number
42099695
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Nürnberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 42 32

More information

Pvt William C. Gamble was employed as a farmhand.

He enlisted in Rochester, New York on 6 October 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his shoulder.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Records / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
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