SSG Whitcher Plaque – 120th Infantry Regiment
Details:
In the driveway entryway to the St. Elizabeth Monastery (Stift).
A black inscribed plaque mounted to an entry post.
The plaque remembers Staff Sergeant Daniel A. Whitcher of Company C, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, who was killed in the garden of the Monastery during the liberation of Kerkrade on October 3, 1944. The 30th Infantry “Old Hickory” Division liberated Kerkrade.
This operation was part of the 1st Army attack on the West Wall defenses.
Monument Text:
The text on the plaque is written in Dutch and the translation in English is:
Daniel Albert Whitcher, Staff Sergeant of C Company, 120th Inf Rgt, 30th Inf. Div. Old Hickory. Killed Oct. 2, 1944 in the garden of Saint Elisabeth Stift (name of Monastery) during the liberation of Kerkrade.
Commemorates:
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Units:
120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division
1st Army
30th Infantry Division
Wars:
WWII
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