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Personal info

Full name
PIERCE, Ellsworth Kenneth
Date of birth
7 July 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31307508
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
51st Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
31 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Lutrebois, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 16 57

Immediate family

Members
George W. Pierce (father)
Mary E. (Boot) Pierce (mother)
Doris M. Pierce (sister)

More information

Pfc Ellsworth K. Pierce enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 20 September 1943.

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

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Massachusetts Birth Index, 1840 - 1915, AAR 51st AIB August 1944 thru May 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - soilsister