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Personal info

Full name
URBANOWICZ, Stanley F
Date of birth
5 March 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey
Hometown
Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42102728
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 November 1944
Place of death
Near Hondskirch, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 18 27

Immediate family

Members
John Urbanowicz (father)
Josephine (Dzierzynska) Urbanowicz (mother)
Anthony Urbanowicz (brother)
Bertha Urbanowicz (sister)
Helen Urbanowicz (sister)
Sophia Urbanowicz (sister)
Annie Urbanowicz (sister)
Rose Urbanowicz (sister)
Frank Urbanowicz (brother)
Walter Urbanowicz (brother)
Joseph Urbanowicz (brother)
Victoria (Wojtkiewicz) Urbanowicz (wife)

More information

Pvt Stanley F. Urbanowicz attended Dickinson High School. He was a cook before he enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 20 December 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments. He was killed less than five weeks after his arrival in Europe.

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 / Walker Family Tree / 1920/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - The Jersey Journal - 3 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Laurette D., www.newspapers.com  - The Jersey Journal - 3 January 1945