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Personal info

Full name
WARD, William Patrick "Bill"
Date of birth
1913
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Illinois
Hometown
Champaign County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-320853
Rank
Captain
Function
unknown
Unit
155th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 13

Immediate family

Members
William P. Ward (father)
Mary J. (Curtin) Ward (mother)
Helen M. Ward (sister)

More information

Capt William P. Ward graduated from Champaign High School in 1930 and from the University of Illinois in 1934. He was employed as a research metallurgist at Raritan Copper Company in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

He enlisted in 1942 and was sent overseas in August 1944.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, Champaign High School - 1930, University of Illinois - 1934