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Personal info

Full name
HEATH, Francis Edgar
Date of birth
19 September 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Bigfork, Flathead County, Montana
Hometown
Yelm, Thurston County, Washington

Military service

Service number
39208156
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 11 44

Immediate family

Members
Clarence E. Heath (father)
Ida M. (Storie) Heath (mother)
Laura Heath (sister)
William Heath (brother)

More information

Pvt Francis E. Heath graduated from Big Fork High School in 1942 and attended Montana State College in Bozeman. He was an electrician

He enlisted in Seattle, Washington on 15 May 1943.

He was reported seriously wounded in action on 27 December when F Company left their position in Chaumont and went into attack northeast towards Bastogne, Belgium. The exact location where he died is not known.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Montana Birth Index, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Big Fork High School 1942