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Personal info

Full name
PENDERGRAST, Thomas Theodore "Jim"
Date of birth
26 October 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Clay County, Missouri
Hometown
Liberty, Clay County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37742735
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
26 December 1944
Place of death
Near Insenborn, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 23 3

Immediate family

Members
Charles E. Pendergrast (father)
Martha A. (Stevenson) Pendergrast (mother)
James Pendergrast (brother)
Martha A. Pendergrast (sister)
Carrie E. Pendergrast (sister)
Maude S. Pendergrast (sister)
Rosena Pendergrast (ssister)
Ella M. Pendergrast (sister)
Charles E. Pendergrast (brother)
Robert E. Pendergrast (brother)
Lawrence A. Pendergrast (brother)

More information

Pvt Thomas T. Pendergrast attended Liberty High School for four years and was employed at the Larabee Flour Mill in North Kansas City before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 8 May 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 / Flanagan Tree, www.findagrave.com - Greybriar, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: -, www.findagrave.com - Greybriar