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Personal info

Full name
PERRI, Ferdinand Fortunato
Date of birth
31 July 1909
Age
35
Place of birth
Consenza, Italy
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33774742
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
23rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 September 1944
Place of death
In a foxhole next to the road to Bouxieres-sous-Froidmont, France
West of Longeville-lès-Cheminot, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
John Perri (father)
Elvira Perri (mother)
Victoria M. Perri (sister)
Frederick J. Perri (brother)
Josephine Perri (sister)
Elvira Perri (sister)
Peter A. Perri (brother)
John Perri (brother)
Anna E. (Palmer) Perri (wife)
Alfred Perri (son)
Julia Perri (daughter)
Robert Perri (son)

More information

Pvt Ferdinand F. Perri was married to Anna Estella Palmer on 26 September 1931.

He became an American citizen on 19 April 1943, and he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 16 March 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1910/1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men 1940-1947 / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII 1950-1966 / U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes 1791-1992 (indexed in World Archives Project) / Pennsylvania U.S. Federal Naturalization Records 1795-1931, https://www.7tharmddiv.org

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