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Personal info

Full name
HARRIS, Francis Grimes
Date of birth
8 January 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Worcester County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31079668
Rank
Technician Third Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
15th General Hospital
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 November 1944
Place of death
Pharmacy Building
Liège, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 9 11

Immediate family

Members
Hart Harris (father)
Nellie F. (Rowe) Harris (mother)
Hart Harris Jr. (brother)
Charles H. Harris (brother)
John J. Harris (brother)
Nora C. Harris (wife)

More information

T/3 Francis G. Harris attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy graduating in 1939.

While stationed in Liège the 15th General Hospital was working out of a former Belgian Military Hospital on top of a hill overlooking the city. On the morning after Thanksgiving, the 15th was to awake to a V-1 flying bomb (buzz bomb). It landed in front of the Pharmacy building and Francis was one of sixteen killed.

T/3 Harris first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Fosse, Belgium Block C, Row 4, Grave 62.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.Med-Dept.com/unit-histories/15th-general-hospital

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com