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Personal info

Full name
SHROUT, Clarence Lee
Date of birth
16 July 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
Bunceton, Cooper County, Missouri
Hometown
San Mateo, San Mateo County, California

Military service

Service number
39141297
Rank
Private
Function
Machine Gunner
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 October 1944
Place of death
Near Randwijk, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 2 25

Immediate family

Members
Elmer H. Shrout (father)
Nannie E. (Harris) Shrout (mother)
Lawrence H. Shrout (brother)
John M. Shrout (brother)
Dortha M. Shrout (sister)
Hillard F. Shrout (brother)

More information

Pvt Clarence L. Shrout enlisted in San Francisco, California on 2 October 1943.

He was already a veteran of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

He was killed German mortar fire.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek, The Netherlands.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Orville L. Kline, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/506/506_honor_st.html, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Laura Phillips, Lambert Kliebisch