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Personal info

Full name
LAMBRECHT, Harold Wilbur Jr
Date of birth
2 March 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Merrill, Wisconsin
Hometown
Lincoln County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16095034
Rank
Corporal
Function
Mortar Crew Man
Unit
HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
9 October 1944
Place of death
Opheusden/Kesteren, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 2 23

Immediate family

Members
Harold W. Lambrecht (father)
Sadie E. Lambrecht (mother)
Vernette Lambrecht (sister)
Lois Lambrecht (sister)
Ruth Lambrecht (sister)
Dorothy Lambrecht (sister)
Carol Lambrecht (sister)
Ellen Lambrecht (sister)
Janice Lambrecht (sister)
Diane Lambrecht (sister)
David Lambrecht (brother)
Dale Lambrecht (brother)
Dennis Lambrecht (brother)
William Lambrecht (brother)

More information

Cpl Harold W. Lambrecht enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 26 August 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek, the Netherlands.

Source of information: FOHF, William E. Lambrecht (brother), www.wwiimemorial.com,
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/506/506_honor_kl.html, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interments Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Bill Lambrecht, Rina Hodiamont