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Personal info

Full name
ROLLINS, Durward Warner
Date of birth
19 June 1908
Age
36
Place of birth
Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont
Hometown
Goshen, Addison County, Vermont

Military service

Service number
31403150
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
346th Infantry Regiment,
87th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Tillet, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 12 67

Immediate family

Members
Claude M. Rollins (father)
Sadie A. (Warner) Rollins (mother)
Lloyd H. Rollins (brother)
Irean B. (Kingsley) Rollins (wife)
Rhoda I. Rollins (daughter)

More information

Pvt Durward W. Rollins enlisted in Rutland, Vermont on 15 November 1943. He trained at the Aberdeen, Md., Proving Grounds and went to England in August, 1944, remaining there until Thanksgiving time, when he was transferred from ordnance to the infantry and sent to France.

He married Miss Irene Kingsley of Windsor on October 23, 1935. After living in Hardwick he lived in Brandon and when he entered the service, he was operating a farm in Goshen, where his wife and nine month old daughter were living.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1910/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / McPhee Family Tree, www.87thinfantrydivision.com, www.newspapers.com - The Burling Free Press

Photo source: Aimee Fogg