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Personal info

Full name
PETERSEN, Harold
Date of birth
27 July 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
New Jersey
Hometown
Hudson County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
20244312
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
259th Infantry Regiment,
65th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 May 1945
Place of death
Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 4 21

Immediate family

Members
Jens O. Petersen (father)
Agnes (Jahnsen) Petersen (mother)
Helen Petersen (sister)
Majorie Petersen (sister)
Dorothy (Ewald) Petersen (wife)
Howard Petersen (son)

More information

Sgt Harold Petersen’s father emigrated from Denmark, his mother emigrated from Norway.

He attended high school for four years and worked as a clerk in a financial institution. He joined the National Guard in Newark, New Jersey on 6 January 1941.

According to his WWII Hospital Admission Card File, Sgt Petersen died of drowning on 4 May 1945.

Source of information: Nick Lieten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – Headstone & Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940 Census / Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Records /

Photo source: www.e-yearbook.com – Lincoln High School 1935