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Personal info

Full name
ROSE, George E
Date of birth
June 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Rockland County, New York

Military service

Service number
42182170
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
395th Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 May 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Hammelburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 11 9

Immediate family

Members
George W. Rose (father)
Mary F. (Bailey) Rose (mother)
Leander Rose (sister)
Irene I. Rose (sister)
Charles F. Rose (brother)
Delmore Rose (brother)
Shirley Rose (sister)
Mabel M. Rose (sister)
Allen Rose (brother)
Marjorie Rose (sister)

More information

Pfc. George E. Rose attended grammar school and was employed at the Haverstraw Industrial Terminal at Garnerville before he enlisted on 22 September 1944 in New York City, New York.

He trained with an engineer unit at Camp Belvoir, Virginia and was later transferred to an infantry unit at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He then went to Camp Shanks and went overseas in February 1945. He landed in France and fought in Belgium and Germany.

Source of information: Yannick, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – World War II Enlistment Record, - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census www.newspapers.com – The Journal News 17 May 1945, https://archive.org/stream/BattleBabies/BattleBabies_djvu.txt
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