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Personal info

Full name
BLOXSOM, Chester Kenneth "Spick"
Date of birth
4 December 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York
Hometown
Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York

Military service

Service number
32798240
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Medical Aidman
Unit
Medical Detachment,
346th Infantry Regiment,
87th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 January 1945
Place of death
Tenneville, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 7 21

Immediate family

Members
Arthur Bloxsom (father)
Maud M. (Ketchum) Bloxsom (mother)
James Bloxsom (brother)
Arthur Bloxsom (brother)
Julia Bloxsom (sister)
Harry D. Bloxsom (brother)

More information

Pfc Chester K. Bloxsom attended high school for two years before he enlisted in New York City, New York on 9 February 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand Failly, 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 / Ketchum Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.87thinfantrydivision.com, www.findagrave.com - Usafdo
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Usafdo, www.ancestry.com - Nanny V