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Personal info

Full name
ALDERFER, Harrison
Date of birth
2 May 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O1824116
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 January 1945
Place of death
Near Mompach, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 2 56

Immediate family

Members
Robert G. Alderfer (father)
Sophia W. (Leirer) Alderfer (mother)
Harold L. Alderfer (brother)
Florence Alderfer (sister)
Helen Alderfer (sister)
Grace Alderfer (sister)
Grace A. (Terwilliger) Alderfer (wife)
James H. Alderfer (son)

More information

2nd Lt Harrison Alderfer graduated from Frankford High School in 1933 and was employed at the Continental Mills in Germantown.

He enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 13 February 1942. He was sent overseas in november 1944.

He was wounded in December 1944 and spent three weeks in a hospital and was back in action about one week before he was killed.

Lt Alderfer died after he was taken prisoner of war. The exact circumstances and the location where he died is not known, but he was initially buried at the Prisoners of War Cemetery of Trier, Germany. According to German records, he died on 9 January 1945.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, 4th ID After Action Reports, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Compensation Application Files WWII / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – The Philadelphia Inquirer Pennsylvania 13 April 1945, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18238601 - page 259

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, Frankford High School 1933