- SURNAME
Vaillancourt
- FORENAME
Albert Wilfred
- UNIT
1 Bn (Red Combat Team)
- RANK
Sergeant
- NUMBER
06134742
- AWARD
Bronze Star
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Lawrence,Essex County,Massachusetts
born 15.4.1914 Lowell,Massachusetts
son of Wilfred Joseph and Mary Laurine (nee Owen) Vaillancourt
graduated high school
enlisted 1942
re-enlisted 18.10.1945 Fort Banks,Boston,Massachusetts (Staff Sergeant Infantry) (married)
from Billerica,Middlesex County,Massachusetts (Korean War record)
8th Cavalry Regiment (Company L,3 Bn) (Master Sergeant)
POW 2.11.1950 near Unsan,North Korea
died of illness 30.3.1951 Camp 5,Pyntong,North Korea
awarded oak leaf cluster to his Bronze Star
originally buried Fox Hill Cemetery,Billerica,Middlesex County,Massachusetts (re-interred 1998)
Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 59 Site 639
born 15.4.1914 Lowell,Massachusetts
son of Wilfred Joseph and Mary Laurine (nee Owen) Vaillancourt
graduated high school
enlisted 1942
re-enlisted 18.10.1945 Fort Banks,Boston,Massachusetts (Staff Sergeant Infantry) (married)
from Billerica,Middlesex County,Massachusetts (Korean War record)
8th Cavalry Regiment (Company L,3 Bn) (Master Sergeant)
POW 2.11.1950 near Unsan,North Korea
died of illness 30.3.1951 Camp 5,Pyntong,North Korea
awarded oak leaf cluster to his Bronze Star
originally buried Fox Hill Cemetery,Billerica,Middlesex County,Massachusetts (re-interred 1998)
Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 59 Site 639
