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Personal info

Full name
LAKE, Robert W
Date of birth
21 March 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Lykeno, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O-1307258
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Assistant Platoon Leader
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division,
2nd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
23 September 1944
Place of death
Monastry Damianen
St. Oedenrode, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 4 2

Immediate family

Members
Robert E. Lake (father)
Florence L. (Wallace) Lake (mother)
Dorothy M. Lake (sister)

More information

2nd Lt Robert W. Lake graduated from William Penn High School and worked for the Harrisburg Steel Corporation.

He enlisted May 1942 and was sent overseas in November 1943.

Lt Lake was wounded by machine gun fire while being in a ditch up front on the right side of the road close to the south part of Monastry.

Source of information: André Jans, Jurgen Swinkels, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.newspapers.com - The Evening News, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree / Veteran Compensation Application File

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph, www.ancestry.com - William Penn High School Yearbook 1934