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PVT James Mitchell Sellers Veteran

Birth
Sellers, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Death
13 Jun 1942 (aged 22)
Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
Burial
Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia Add to Map
Plot
Block G Row 17 Grave 5
Memorial ID
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #34264177
Enlistment Date: 03/12/1942 at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia
Entered the Service from: Alabama
Air Corps (Unassigned)

James M. Sellers is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Montgomery County, Alabama.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Sellers, Montgomery County, Alabama. Contact person listed as A. C. Sellers of same address. Place of birth listed as Sellers, Alabama on 05/04/1920. Middle name listed as Mitchell. Employed by Civil Service, Gunter Field, QM Warehouse, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama as of 07/01/1941 registration date.

U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 lists that he died aboard HMHS "Oxfordshire" Hospital Ship in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Military Funeral Held at King Tom European Cemetery June 14, 1942, remains interred in plot No. 131. Private Sellers took ill on the 30th of May aboard U.S.A.T. "Santa Paula" and subsequently died due to carcinoma of the pancreas.

U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:

Mr. Anderson C. Sellers (Father)
Sellers, Alabama

***I would like to thank B Summerlin Find A Grave ID 47204209 for updating the birth date and location information on this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #34264177
Enlistment Date: 03/12/1942 at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia
Entered the Service from: Alabama
Air Corps (Unassigned)

James M. Sellers is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Montgomery County, Alabama.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Sellers, Montgomery County, Alabama. Contact person listed as A. C. Sellers of same address. Place of birth listed as Sellers, Alabama on 05/04/1920. Middle name listed as Mitchell. Employed by Civil Service, Gunter Field, QM Warehouse, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama as of 07/01/1941 registration date.

U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 lists that he died aboard HMHS "Oxfordshire" Hospital Ship in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Military Funeral Held at King Tom European Cemetery June 14, 1942, remains interred in plot No. 131. Private Sellers took ill on the 30th of May aboard U.S.A.T. "Santa Paula" and subsequently died due to carcinoma of the pancreas.

U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:

Mr. Anderson C. Sellers (Father)
Sellers, Alabama

***I would like to thank B Summerlin Find A Grave ID 47204209 for updating the birth date and location information on this memorial***

Gravesite Details

See Memorial ID 33600586 for stateside cenotaph and family links



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