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Personal info

Full name
WILSON, Oswald Richard
Date of birth
18 November 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Fillmore County, Minnesota
Hometown
Fillmore County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
17143761
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
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 17 59

Immediate family

Members
Samuel A. Wilson (father)
Anna L. (Otterness) Wilson (mother)
Oswald J. Wilson (brother)
Maybelle Wilson (sister)
Paul Wilson (brother)
Margaret Wilson (sister)

More information

Pfc Oswald R. Wilson joined the Regular Army in Waterloo, Iowa on 7 December 1942.

He attended 1 year of college.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Jeanette Kay Jacobson Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irong.php
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