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Personal info

Full name
ALTHAGE, Alvin Theodore "Boots"
Date of birth
7 September 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Lyon, Franklin County, Missouri
Hometown
New Haven, Franklin County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37636835
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
119th Infantry Regiment,
30th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 October 1944
Place of death
Richterich, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 13 44

Immediate family

Members
Adolph W. L. Althage (father)
Ella H. (Kormeier) Althage (mother)
Raymond H. E. Althage (brother)
Dorris Althage (sister)
Gilbert Althage (brother)
Richard Althage (brother)
Dorothy Althage (sister)
Esther Althage (sister)
Howard Althage (brother)

More information

Pvt Alvin T. Althage worked at the Eggenberg Transfer Company.

He enlisted at Jefferson Barracks Missouri on 31 March 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census /Family Treed, www.oldhickory30th.com, Washington Citizen (Washington, Missouri)

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Dorothy Kasmann, www.wwiimemorial.com