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Personal info

Full name
WILSON, Claude Aubrey
Date of birth
8 April 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia
Hometown
Wythe County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
13036793
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
2nd Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 December 1944
Place of death
Near Longchamps, Bertogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 12 17

Immediate family

Members
Lindsey C. Wilson (father)
Laura B. (Lambert) Wilson (mother)
Jake W. Wilson (brother)
Lula C. Wilson (sister)
Richard F. Wilson (brother)
Ethel D. Wilson (sister)
Price A. Wilson (brother)
Paul F. Wilson (brother)
Carl M. Wilson (brother)
Daisy V. Wilson (sister)

More information

Pfc Claude A. Wilson volunteered for the Army of the United States in Richmond, Virginia on 28 February 1942.
He 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.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Mitchell Bondurant Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Craig Robertson