Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
MAXWELL, Henry Tillman III
Date of birth
9 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Newport County, Rhode Island
Hometown
Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island

Military service

Service number
31448606
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bavigne, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 7 6

Immediate family

Members
Henry T. Maxwell II (father)
Margaret M. (Wood) Potts (mother)
Nancy J. (Howe) Maxwell (wife)

More information

Pvt Henry T. Maxwell III attended high school for four years and was a tinsmith, coppersmith and sheet metal worker before he enlisted in Newport, Rhode Island on 21 June 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments attached in his skull.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Gibson Carr Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, www.findagrave.com, www.fold3.com – 26th Infantry Division

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Newport / The Newport Mercury & Weekly News 2 February 1945