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Personal info

Full name
SHAW, Donald H
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Albany County, New York

Military service

Service number
O1311217
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 November 1944
Place of death
Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 27 42

Immediate family

Members
Albert Shaw (father)
Dorothy R. Shaw (mother)
Robert Shaw (brother)

More information

2nd Lt Donald H. Shaw graduated from Syracuse University in 1942.

He enlisted in Albany, New York on 18 May 1942. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant on 15 February 1943. He arrived in England 17 August 1944 and was in combat since October 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of 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 / 1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com - Robert A. Shaw, www.ancestry.com - Syracuse University Yearbook 1942