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Personal info

Full name
ABELL, Forrest William
Date of birth
9 April 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Middleton, Butler County, Ohio
Hometown
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
35479435
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Battery,
80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 October 1944
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 1 11

Immediate family

Members
William C. Abell (father)
Lotta W. (Brown) Abell (mother)
Thelma Abell (sister)
Naomi F. Abell (sister)
Pauline Abell (sister)
Beatrice Abell (sister)
George A. Abell (brother)
Eugene Abell (brother)
Francis L. Abell (brother)
Elizabeth (Taylor) Abell (wife)
Lottie A. Abell (daughter)
Forrest W. Abell Jr. (son)
Albert E. Abell (son)

More information

Pvt Forrest W. Abell worked for the Hart Manufacturing Company.

He enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 13 May 1942.

Pvt Abell was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Janice Monk, Terry Hirsch, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal, Ohio Birth Records

Photo source: FOHF, Trevor Abell