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SARGENT, Kermit Ellsworth - Date of
birth
25 February 1922 -
Age
23 - Place of
birth
Council, Buchanan County, Virginia -
Hometown
New Garden, Russell County, Virginia
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
33527043 -
Rank
Private -
Function
unknown -
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
30 November 1945 - Place of
death
In the field behind the farm located at Kreuzherrenstrass 3
Merode, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Drayton E. Sargent (father)
Grace B. (Combs) Sargent (mother)
Lena Sargent (sister)
Gaylard Sargent (brother)
Woodrow Sargent (brother)
Joseph M. Sargent (brother)
Randall Sargent (brother)
Edro D. Sargent (brother)
More information
Pvt Kermit E. Sargent enlisted in Abingdon, Virginia on 7 December 1942.Kermit E. Sargent was reported seriously wounded in action on 29 November 1944. He was brought to a German aid station in a farm, but he died shortly after. He was then hastily buried by German paratrooper Wilhelm Kleiner in a shell-hole behind the farm.
He was officially declared death one year and one day after he was reported missing in action.
His remains were found in 1972 and reburied at the cemetery of Merode along with his former German paratrooper opponents. It is not yet clear if U.S. authorities will exhume his remains for identification and reburial.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Carrie Naomi Kendrick Family Tree / 1930-1940 census / WWII Enlistment Record, http://www.ww2incolor.com/us-army/AN_D_merode2.html
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - randallraxter