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Personal info

Full name
DAGRES, Georges Constantine
Date of birth
8 January 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Canton, Stark County, Ohio
Hometown
Stark County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
15360378
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
31 December 1944
Place of death
Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 8 21

Immediate family

Members
Constantino G. Dagres (father)
Katherine (Siffert) Dagres (mother)
Otterbein Bradford (half-brother)
Katherine Bradford (half-sister)

More information

Cpl George C. Dagres graduated from Navarre High School and attended Otterbein College for one semester.

He joined the Army in Columbus, Ohio, on 3 December 1942.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery 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, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Bugs / Hudson Louie, www.ancestry.com - David Wills