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Personal info

Full name
WORLEY, Earnest Lee
Date of birth
28 July 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Montgomery City, Montgomery, Missouri
Hometown
Clark, Randolph County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37050556
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 November 1944
Place of death
Jüngersdorf-Merode, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 3 60

Immediate family

Members
Mary Worley (mother)
Eldon H. Worley (brother)
Elmer Worley (brother)

More information

Pfc. Ernest Lee Worley, son of Mrs. Mary Worley, Route 2, Clifton Hill, has been missing in action in Germany since November 29, according to a message from the War Department to his mother.
Pfc. Worley has been in the service since January 1, 1941, when he enlisted and was sent to Fort Riley, Kan. As a travelling military police, he traveled in all except five of the States before being sent overseas.
In the European theater he was in a front line clearance division. For a time he was stationed in England, going from there to the fighting front in Germany.
Pfc. Worley was born July 28, 1912, in Montgomery City and went with his family to Chariton county in 1924. He attended school in Salisbury.
Besides his mother he is survived by two brothers, Cpl Eldon Howard Worley, Engineers Maintenance, Iwo Jima, and Elmer Worley of the home. Their father died in September, 1942.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Record, www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html, www.newspapers.com - Moberly Monitor-Index

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - Moberly Monitor-Index