George A. Beigel was born in 1913 in New York. He resided in Erie County, New York prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on February 12, 1941, prior to the war, in Buffalo, New York. He was noted as being employed as an Office Clerk and also as Single, without dependents. George served as a Private, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, U.S. Army during World War II. He died in the "Line Of Duty" of a non-battle related incident and was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and his remains were exhumed and transferred. He is buried now in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.