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Personal info

Full name
WENCIS, Felix Joseph
Date of birth
25 May 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Brighton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31031796
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
21 March 1945
Place of death
Near Ottweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 32 4

Immediate family

Members
Felix J. Wencis (father)
Amelia (Knapck) Wencis (mother)
Julius J. Wencis (brother)
Julia Wencis (sister)
Helen Wencis (sister)
Bronya A. Wencis (sister)
Blanche Wencis (sister)
Jennie A. Wencis (sister)
Stanley Wencis (brother)
Edward M. Wencis (brother)
Frank A. Wencis (brother)

More information

T/Sgt Felix J. Wencis attended high school for three years before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 20 March 1941.

He died in a hospital to the effects of artillery shell fragments.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Bronya A. Sharkey, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Paul Mantos Family Tree, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
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