Missing information?
Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?
Submit- Full
name
RAYBURN, Wayne Henry - Date of
birth
6 March 1913 -
Age
31 - Place of
birth
Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas -
Hometown
Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
37060457 -
Rank
Sergeant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
14th Tank Battalion,
9th Armored Division
-
Awards
Purple Heart
Death
-
Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
1 March 1945 - Place of
death
Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Palmer Rayburn (father)
Mary (Nix) Rayburn (mother)
Thomas A. Rayburn (brother)
Lotus Rayburn (sister)
Sibil Rayburn (sister)
Dail Rayburn (brother)
Ruby V. Rayburn (sister)
Emma I. Rayburn (sister)
Edra I. (Roberts) Rayburn (wife)
Sylvia A. Rayburn (daughter)
More information
Sgt Wayne H. Rayburn enlisted on 29 January 1941.He is remembered at Shiloh Cemetery in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas with a memorial marker.
Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.wwiimemorial.com - Barbara Jackson, www.findagrave.com - Gala Sherman, www.ancestry.com - Medley/Hansche Family Tree / 1920/1940 Census
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com - Barbara Jackson, www.findagrave.com - James Petersen