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Personal info

Full name
NEWSOME, Linwood Turner
Date of birth
24 February 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Southampton County, Virginia
Hometown
Southampton County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
6852487
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 8 4

Immediate family

Members
Charlie L. Newsome (father)
Essie N. (Edwards) Newsome (mother)
Charlie L. Newsome (brother)
James E. Newsome (brother)
Edwin B. Newsome (brother)

More information

T/Sgt Linwood T. Newsome joined the Regular Army on 2 August 1939.

According to to a POW record, T/Sgt Newsome died in German Dressing Station on 15 December 1944. It is possible he was wounded in action, taken prisoner and died of his wounds the same day. The exact circumstances and the location where he died, are not known. At that time, the regiment was fighting in the vicinity of Bergstein, Hürtgen Forest, Germany.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - World War II Prisoners of War / Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Birth Index

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Dorothy Blackburn Worton, cousin - courtesy of Carolyn D. Chenoweth and Debbie Holloman