Purple heart memorial - Maastricht, NL
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PetjeOp
N 50° 50.974 E 005° 41.977
31U E 690028 N 5636569
At the purple heart memorial for private William Greentree you see a relief of the purple heart medal with the image of George Washington.
Waymark Code: WM1973Z
Location: Limburg, Netherlands
Date Posted: 12/12/2023
Views: 3
I have never seen such a memorial stone in the Netherlands before..
I was drawn to it because of the old image.. So i went searching on internet about the old image that was on this memorial and it turned out to be George Washington on the relief of a purple heart medal.
Tekst on the plaque
William Greentree
pvt 247 ENGR C BN US ARMY
+ 14 SEPTEMBER 1944
The story
"On Sept. 14th the HQs of the 1104th Engineer Combat Group set up a forward CP in an old hotel at Maastricht that had been abandoned by the Germans.
The hotel formerly had been a sort of "rest home" for the German troops stationed in Maastricht and seemed to be just the thing for a CP.
The building was checked for booby traps by two separate parties, but in spite of their best efforts, about 2000 hours that evening a time bomb went off just over the main dining room of the hotel, killing private William Greentree and wounding two others."
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