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Personal info

Full name
EATON, Woodrow Arthur
Date of birth
26 August 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Hometown
Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Military service

Service number
31463244
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
11th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Merscheid – Hoscheid, Luxembourg.

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 12 74

Immediate family

Members
Arthur H. Eaton (father)
Dora L. (Randall) Eaton (mother)
Jacob A. Eaton (brother)
Eliza B. Eaton (sister)
Goldie J. (Fowler) Eaton (wife)
Loretta G. Eaton (daughter)
Elwin L. Eaton (son)
Lydia Eaton (daughter)

More information

Pfc Woodrow A. Eaton attended local schools and was employed at Louis Shoe Company.

He enlisted at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts on 12 April 1944.

Pfc Eaton is remembered at Wildwood Cemetery in Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Records, www.ancestry.com – 1920/1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record, www.findagrave.com, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com – Paul Bradley / James Smith