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Personal info

Full name
DONALDSON, Robert I
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Missouri
Hometown
Webster County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
15041808
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
330th Infantry Regiment,
83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Strass-Grosshau, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 19 24

Immediate family

Members
Robert B. Donaldson (father)
Helen Donaldson (stepmother)
Dorothy (half-sister)
James Cain (stepbrother)
Verna Cain (stepsister)
Robert W. Cain (stepbrother)
Charles L. Cain (stepbrother)

More information

Pvt Robert I. Donaldson attended high school for two years and worked in an aircraft manufacturing factory.

He joined the Regular Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky on 4 July 1940. He served with the coast artillery in the Panama Canal Zone for three and a half years. He then spent six months in the States before being sent overseas where he joined his unit on 21 December 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Enlistment Record / Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal