Hyman Esses

Company C 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 07/29/1944

Hyman Esses was born in New York, New York on March 12, 1921.

In the records of the 22nd Infantry he listed his home of residence as Baltimore, Maryland.

His Army serial number indicates he enlisted in the Regular Army prior to the Selective Service Act of 1940.

He entered the service from the State of New York. He was married and his religion was listed as Hebrew.

He was assigned to Company C from the 4th Infantry Division
replacement pool on June 26, 1944.

Private First Class Esses was killed in action in France during Operation Cobra, the breakout from Normandy
on July 29, 1944.

Hyman Esses was originally buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Marigny Cemetery, St. Lô, France, in Block L Row 9 Grave 177, and his remains were later
transferred and reinterred in the permanent cemetery at St. James, in the 1947-1949 time frame,
when the temporary cemeteries were shut down.

Burial:
Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial
Saint-James
Departement de la Manche
Basse-Normandie, France
Plot A Row 12 Grave 12

Grave marker for Hyman Esses

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Grave marker for Hyman Esses

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