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Personal info

Full name
KORDELSKI, Louis Joseph
Date of birth
19 October 1905
Age
39
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York
Hometown
Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York

Military service

Service number
32310447
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
69th Tank Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
18 November 1944
Place of death
Near Chémery, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 24 35

Immediate family

Members
Mary Kordelski (mother)

More information

Pvt Louis J. Kordelski was employed at the Swan River nursery in East Patchogue before he enlisted at Fort Jay, New York on 8 April 1942. He was sent overseas in February 1944.
He was seriously wounded in action by artillery shell fragments on 14 November and died in a hospital on 18 November 1944.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, 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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.newspapers.com – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle New York 13 December 1944, www.super6th.org
Photo source: www.wwiimemorial.com – Mr & Mrs George Berwick