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Personal info

Full name
WESTON, Benjamin Hill
Date of birth
1 August 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming
Hometown
Yavapai County, Arizona

Military service

Service number
39587211
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
417th Infantry Regiment,
76th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dorfweil or Schmitten, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 27 3

Immediate family

Members
David E. Weston (father)
May L. (Groennsser) Weston (mother)
Beulah Weston (sister)
Samuel E. Weston (brother)
Dorothy Weston (sister)
David Weston (brother)
Myrtle F. (Davis) Weston (wife)

More information

Pvt Benjamin H. Weston was married to Myrtle Florence Davis on 7 January 1938 in Mohave, Arizona.

Between 1935 and 1941 he was employed at the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fé Coastline.

He enlisted at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California on 27 May 1944.

Benjamin H. Weston is memorialized on a memorial in the center of Prescott, Arizona.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / California, Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Doc Wilson