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Personal info

Full name
GOTTSMAN, Charles Leonard
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20121111
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 2 39

Immediate family

Members
William N. Gottsman (father)
Evangeline J. (Coulter) Gottsman (mother)
William N. Gottsman Jr. (brother)
Ruth E. Gottsman (sister)

More information

Pvt Charles L. Gottsman joined the National Guard in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 September 1940. He was sent overseas in September 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his stomach and leg.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Craigmyle Gordons Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - 455th AAA Historian
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Astrid / 455th AAA Historian