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Personal info

Full name
GORTON, Ernest
Date of birth
26 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Long Eddy, Sullivan County, New York
Hometown
Sullivan County, New York

Military service

Service number
32227495
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
17th Tank Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
8 December 1944
Place of death
Vicinity Ulbach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 15 7

Immediate family

Members
Austin Gorton (father)
Pearl Gorton (mother)
Isabelle Gorton (sister)
Ivan Gorton (brother)
Bernard Gorton (brother)
Anna L. Johnson (wife)
Ernest Gorton (son)

More information

T/4 Ernest Gorton enlisted 13 March 1942 at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York. He was sent overseas in April 1944.

He was wounded at Metz on 20 April 1944, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart a first time and was discharged from the General Hospital in France on 27 October 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, The Hancock Herald - 21 December 1944; The Hancock Herald - 8 February 1945, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Hancock Herald - 11 January 1945