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Personal info

Full name
HANSMEIER, Virgil Melvin
Date of birth
25 January 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois
Hometown
Concord, Morgan County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36686985
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
319th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Baucourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 9 16

Immediate family

Members
Samuel F. Hansmeier (father)
Mary J. (Gaddis) Hansmeier (mother)
Ella Hansmeier (sister)
Mildred J. Hansmeier (sister)
Farrell Hansmeier (brother)
Lena L. (Peck) Hansmeier (wife)

More information

Pfc Virgil M. Hansmeier attended high school for four years and was employed by the Rainbow Paint and Wallpaper Corporation when he was drafted on 16 October 1940.

From March 1944 till June 1944 he was hospitalized for a hernia.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his face.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards / Boyd - Mc Farland Family Tree, www.80thdivision.com
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