William B. Lickfield
Sergeant William B. Lickfield of Collingswood, NJ.
Rank: Sergeant, U.S. Army
Serial Number: 32205284
Unit: 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division
Hometown: Collingswood, New Jersey
Died of Wounds:
Buried: Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England (Plot D, Row 6, Grave 51)
Awards: Purple Heart
Sergeant William B. Lickfield was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lickfield, of 112 Edison Street in Collingswood, NJ. A member of Collingswood High School’s class of 1938, he was working for the Campbell’s Soup Company in Camden, NJ prior to entering the Army on January 26, 1942.
William Lickfield underwent basic training at Fort McClellan, AL, then was stationed at Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA as an infantry instructor as a member of the 124th Infantry Regiment. He was stationed briefly at Fort Jackson, SC before being assigned to the 119th Infantry Regiment, then stationed at Fort Atterbury, IN, late in 1943. Traveling by train, his unit staged at Camp Miles Standish, MA on January 31, 1944, and left for England from Boston on February 11, arriving in the United Kingdom on February 23.
Sergeant Lickfield landed with the 30th Infantry Division in France on June 10, 1944, and was wounded in the fighting in Normandy on July 12th. He died as a result of these wounds on July 17, 1944, and is buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England.