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Personal info

Full name
HADDEN, Wilbur F
Date of birth
16 January 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Chautauqua County, New York

Military service

Service number
32930145
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
1st Battalion,
193rd Glider Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 8 39

Immediate family

Members
Ferdinand Hadden (father)
Anna (Patterson) Hadden (mother)
Hazel Hadden (sister)
Ronald Hadden (brother)
Violet L. Hadden (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Wilbur F. Hadden attended high school for one year and was a salesman.

He enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 3 April 1943.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

S/Sgt Hadden is remembered at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Lakewood, Chautauqua County, New York with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Daniel and Audrey Briggs / CABrown, Jamestown Post Journal - 1 September 1945