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Personal info

Full name
STURGIS, Paul Avery
Date of birth
12 January 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland
Hometown
Marshallton, New Castle County, Delaware

Military service

Service number
42082763
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 December 1944
Place of death
Grevels-Brésil, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 8 26

Immediate family

Members
Edgar T. Sturgis (father)
Delitha A. (Cluff) Sturgis (mother)
Leroy Sturgis (brother)
Ida V. Sturgis (sister)
Harvey T. Sturgis (brother)
Glenwood C. Sturgis (brother)
Ruth E. Sturgis (sister)
Mary J. Sturgis (sister)
Gladys M. Sturgis (sister)
Francis P. Sturgis (brother)
Maurice E. Sturgis (brother)
Ruth M. (Wickers) Sturgis (wife)
Charles Sturgis (son)

More information

Sgt Paul A. Sturgis was employed at Continental Diamond Fibre Company before he enlisted in Camden, New Jersey on 17 January 1944. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his buttock and hip.

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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Connie Stevens Family Tree / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, www.fold3.com – 26th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com – The News Journal - 9 January 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.ancestry.com – ruttergw, www.newspapers.com – The News Journal - 9 January 1945