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Personal info

Full name
FENNER, Robert Marvin
Date of birth
3 May 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
West Union, Adams County, Ohio
Hometown
Montgomery County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35883786
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
39th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Limburg an der Lahn, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 2 22

Immediate family

Members
Franklin F. Fenner (father)
Nella M. Fenner (mother)
Franklin A. Fenner (brother)

More information

Pvt Robert M. Fenner was a 1933 graduate of Grand Junction High School where he played basketball. He also graduated from William Jewell College in Missouri in 1937. He was employed at Remington Arms plant in Denver, Colorado before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 22 January 1944.
He was taken prisoner and died in Stalag 9B.

The picture was taken in high school in 1936.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record /World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - 1920 Census / Ohio Birth Index 1908-1964, WWII Draft Cards, The Daily Sentinel - 26 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, William Jewell College yearbook 1936