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Personal info

Full name
MORGAN, William Girard
Date of birth
15 June 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Nanticoke, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Sparrows Point, Baltimore County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33903972
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
137th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 September 1944
Place of death
Sommerviller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 8 82

Immediate family

Members
John F. Morgan (father)
Catherine (Mahon) Morgan (mother)
John J. Morgan (brother)
Elizabeth R. (Amann) Morgan (wife)

More information

Pvt William G. Morgan attended high school for four years and was employed at the Bethlehem Steel Company before he enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 22 January 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 / Morgan Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
Photo source: www.ancestry.com - LM Amann