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Personal info

Full name
WILDING, George Hall II
Date of birth
21 April 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey
Hometown
Nyack, Rockland County, New York

Military service

Service number
11119831
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 November 1944
Place of death
Koecking Woods, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 9 29

Immediate family

Members
Clinton F. Wilding (father)
Helen B. Wilding (mother)
Phyllis Wilding (sister)
Jean Wilding (sister)
Ruth Wilding (sister)
Elizabeth Wilding (sister)

More information

Sgt George H. Wilding II attended college for three years before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Middletown, Connecticut on 15 December 1942.

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 / 1930/1940 Census, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - R.C.
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