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Personal info

Full name
YOUNG, Frank Wilmer Jr
Date of birth
1912
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31425889
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
359th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 September 1944
Place of death
Near Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 23 30

Immediate family

Members
Frank W. Young (father)
Lillian F. (Eames) Young (mother)
Edna S. Young (sister)
Nelson B. Young (brother)
Bertha C. (Ryan) Young (wife)

More information

Sgt Frank W. Young Jr. attended college and was a salesman before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 11 November 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 / Ryan Linnhoff & Sundell White Family Tree, www.findagrave.com

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