Grave marker for Phillip H. Gosselin in Plot AA1 of the
Sacred Heart Cemetery, Andover (Essex county), Massachusetts.
Phillip enlisted in the Army at Boston, MA on 2 July
1941and was assigned to Company D, 508th PIR.
On 3 August 1944 he was promoted to Pfc.
Pfc Gosselin participated in the Holland jump on 17
September 1944 and was wounded in action there on 20 September. He was
evacuated to a field hospital and returned to duty on 28 September.
During the Ardennes campaign he was apparently wounded
again and was sent to a field hospital as a "battle casualty" where he
was transferred to another unnamed hospital on 28 January 1945.
On 7 March 1945 Cpl Gosselin returned to the company
having been transferred from the 11th Reinforcement Depot. |