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Personal info

Full name
SANDONATO, Anthony
Date of birth
22 December 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20101749
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 November 1944
Place of death
Insviller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 34 26

Immediate family

Members
Luigi Sandonato (father)
Nellie (Canale) Sandonato (mother)
Rose M. Sandonato (sister)
James Sandonato (brother)
Michael Sandonato (brother)
Samuel J. Sandonato (brother)
Eva A. Sandonato (sister)
Joseph L. G. Sandonato (brother)
Albert J. Sandonato (brother)
John F. Sandonato (brother)
Marie L. Sandonato (sister)
Louis A. Sandonato (brother)
Robert W. Sandonato (brother)

More information

Pfc Anthony Sandonato was employed at the Max Londin Quincy Furniture Company before he joined the National Guard in Hingham, Massachusetts on 16 January 1941.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his buttock and hip.

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 / Zaino Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com
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