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Personal info

Full name
TENNISON, Raymond Chester
Date of birth
6 November 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Sipe Springs, Comanche County, Texas
Hometown
Cross plains, Callahan County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38608399
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
309th Infantry Regiment,
78th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 January 1945
Place of death
Simmerath/Bickerath/Witzerath area, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 19 23

Immediate family

Members
Ira M. Tennison (father)
Jennie May (Decker) Tennison (mother)
Reba Tennison (sister)
Virgil Tennison (brother)
Bertha Tennison (sister)
Dulon Tennison (brother)
C. W. Tennison (brother)
Deotis Tennison (brother)
Doris Tennison (sister)
Billy Wain Tennison (brother)
Delbert Tennison (brother)

More information

Raymond C. Tennison enlisted in Lubbock, Texas on 26 January 1944. He trained at Camp Croft, South Carolina and Camp Shelby, Mississippi.

Christmas day 1944 he spent with his brother in England, the first time they had seen each other in two years.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / WWII Draft Card, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, "Die Hard" by Sergeant Thomas P. Lockhart Jr., I Company, 309th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - Abilene Reporter-News, www.fold3.com 

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Texas Tech Southwest Collection - Cross Plains Review - 16 February 1945, Callahan County Memorial