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Personal info

Full name
WATT, Alan Wilfred
Date of birth
25 August 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Whitstable, Kent, England
Hometown
Oakland, Alameda County, California

Military service

Service number
39049348
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
44th Armored Infantry Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Near Marvie, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 4 45

Immediate family

Members
Herbert J. Watt (father)
Eva E. (Martin) Watt (mother)
Eva G. Watt (sister)
Hugh B. Watt (brother)
Gladys M. Watt (sister)
Reginald M. Watt (brother)
Lawrence P. Watt (brother)
Verna (Nash) Watt (wife)
Carolee Watt (daughter)
Barry A. Watt (son)

More information

Pvt Alan W. Watt graduated from Berkeley High School in 1928 and from the University of California at Davis two-year Agriculture program in May 1930. He was a clerk at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

He enlisted in Presidio of Monterey, California on 29 March 1944 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

He died of wounds in a field hospital from the effects of artillery shell fragments, received the same day.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Armstrong Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.newspapers.com – Oakland Tribune 26 January 1945, www.super6th.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com – Oakland Tribune 26 January 1945