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Personal info

Full name
RUTHERFORD, Robert C
Date of birth
12 May 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Pulaski County, Kentucky
Hometown
Pulaski County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35667405
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
14th Tank Battalion,
9th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 10 43

Immediate family

Members
Oscar C. Rutherford (father)
Mary A. (Birt) Rutherford (mother)
Clarence E. Rutherford (brother)
Glenn B. Rutherford (brother)
Mildred E. Rutherford (sister)
Nellie Rutherford (sister)
Della L. Rutherford (sister)
Charles R. Rutherford (brother)
Alberta Rutherford (sister)
Nannie M. Rutherford (sister)
Ford G. Rutherford (brother)

More information

Cpl Robert C. Rutherford enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 22 October 1942.
He worked on a farm before he enlisted.
Cpl Robert C. Rutherford was first buried at Temporary Amereican Military Cemetery Henri-Chapelle, Belgium Block E4, Row 10, Grave 199.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Butler Bodick Birt Cave Research Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet