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Personal info

Full name
TRASK, Philip Edward
Date of birth
30 January 1907
Age
37
Place of birth
Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31429600
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
33rd Armored Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 January 1945
Place of death
Sterpigny, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 1 47

Immediate family

Members
Everett B. Trask (father)
Bessie M. (Bowie) Trask (mother)
Everett B. Trask (brother)
Maude Trask (sister)
Margarette A. Trask (sister)
Teresa G. (Sheehan) Trask (wife)

More information

Philip Trask graduated from Beverly High School in 1925 and followed his elder brother Everett in studying at Bentley School of Accounting and Finance in Boston.

He was married to Teresa Sheehan in 1941.

He enlisted in January 1944.

He was reported wounded in action in September 1944, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart medal a first time. After recovering he rejoined his unit in November 1944.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com, www.fold3.com - Discharge paper / Salem Evening News

Photo source: www.ancestry.com, Peter Schouteten, Anne and Alex Cambon