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Personal info

Full name
HENGST, Edgar Carl
Date of birth
5 January 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Yorktown, DeWitt County, Texas
Hometown
Hitchcock, Galveston County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38415714
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
345th Infantry Regiment,
87th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 January 1945
Place of death
Rondu, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 3 17

Immediate family

Members
Charles O. Hengst (father)
Elsie (Darringer) Hengst (mother)
Wilburn Hengst (brother)
Irene Hengst (sister)
Leroy Hengst (brother)
Doris Hengst (sister)
Harvey Hengst (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Edgar C. Hengst attended high school for four years before he enlisted in Houston, Texas on 11 February 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church Records, http://87thinfantrydivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten