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Personal info

Full name
SPINOS, George Anthony
Date of birth
17 September 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31032355
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
19 March 1945
Place of death
Merzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 15 74

Immediate family

Members
Anthony G. Spinos (father)
Sophie (Kalafates) Spinos (mother)
Anjella Spinos (sister)
Constantine Spinos (brother)
Isabelle J. (Hume) Spinos (wife)

More information

Cpl George A. Spinos attended college.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 21 March 1941.

He died in a field hospital from the effects of artillery shell fragments in his kidney, tibia and fibula.

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 / Katherine Vlahakis Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.fold3.com – 26th Infantry Division

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Somerville / Khume