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Personal info

Full name
HESS, Harold
Date of birth
5 November 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Michigan
Hometown
Wayne County, Michigan
Religion
Protestant

Military service

Service number
36899495
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Automatic Rifleman
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
115th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dürboslar, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
M 6 16

Immediate family

Members
Walter A. Hess (father)
Dorothy M. (Haring) Hess (mother)
Frederick Hess (brother)
Charles Hess (brother)
Gertrude Hess (sister)
Dorothy Hess (sister)
Clara D. (Bergey) Hess (wife)
Virginia A. Hess (daughter)

More information

Pfc Harold Hess was employed as a supervisor in a foundry.

He was married to Clara Doris Bergey on 1 February 1941.

He enlisted in Detroit on 16 February 1944, sent overseas in July 1944 and joined his unit from a replacement depot on 12 August 1944. He was promoted to Private First Class on 15 September 1944.

Source of information: Antoine Scheijen, ABMC, National Archives, www.ancestry.com, https://digmichnews.cmich.edu - The Clare Sentinel

Photo source: Antoine Scheijen, https://digmichnews.cmich.edu - The Clare Sentinel