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Personal info

Full name
SMITH, Burleigh Adams
Date of birth
26 August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11132510
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
346th Infantry Regiment,
87th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 January 1945
Place of death
Near Andler, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 10 14

Immediate family

Members
Laurence B. Smith (father)
Grace M. (Adams) Smith (mother)

More information

Pfc Burleigh A. Smith attended college for one year before he joined the Regular Army in Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 12 November 1943.
He volunteered to lead a rescue party over exposed terrain, which was under artillery fire, to rescue a wounded companion. His party reached the wounded man, but while loading him on to the stretcher, Sgt Smith was mortally wounded. For this action he was rewarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously.

He is remembered at the Evergreen Cemetery in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – Mr. Harold Allen Lightman, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Mattox Tree, http://87thinfantrydivision.com, www.findagrave.com – Shane O / Bill Bourbeau

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.ancestry.com - Norwich University, Vermont Yearbook 1947 / Carol Mattox