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Personal info

Full name
ERVIN, Roy Cleo
Date of birth
4 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Minden, Fayette County, West Virginia
Hometown
Kanawha County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35733781
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
South of Gladbeck, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 3 20

Immediate family

Members
Roy E. Ervin (father)
Esta M. (McNeal) Ervin (mother)
Joseph Ervin (brother)
Helen Ervin (sister)
Jeanie Ervin (sister)

More information

Pfc Roy C. Ervin enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 7 October 1943.

He was slightly wounded on 9 November 1944 but not long after that he returned to active duty.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Raf Dyckmans, Vivienne van de Walle, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1940 Census / Beckley Post-Herald / West Virginia Birth Index, www.coulthart.com/134, Newspaper article

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Patricia Pleska/WV Veterans Memorial Archives