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Personal info

Full name
GILES, Wallace J
Date of birth
30 September 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Crossana, Navarro County, Texas
Hometown
Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Military service

Service number
39721615
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
424th Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Steinebruck-Winterspelt, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 4 5

Immediate family

Members
John Giles (father)
Emma (Jackson) Giles (mother)
Patsy R. Giles (sister)
Mabel Giles (sister)
Connie F. Giles (sister)
Edna M. Giles (sister)
Emma K. Giles (sister)

More information

Pfc Wallace J. Giles was an inmate of Lerdo Jail in Bakersfield.

He enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 23 September 1943.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / Texas Birth Index, www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/SoThinkTOC106th.htm

Photo source:
Peter Schouteten