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Personal info

Full name
WARD, Corney Mack
Date of birth
19 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Haywood County, Missouri
Hometown
Stoddard County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
20732347
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 September 1944
Place of death
Lange Hezelstraat near the Kronerburgerpark
Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 19 28

Immediate family

Members
Cary L. Ward (father)
Ira (Worrell) Ward (mother)
Joseph C. Ward (brother)
Kitty Ward (sister)
Finis Ward (brother)
Katherine Ward (sister)
Bobby W. Ward (brother)
Katie M. Ward (sister)
Joy Ward (brother)
Roy Ward (brother)
Leone Ward (half-sister)
Fred L. Ward (half-brother)
Thomas H. Ward (half-brother)

More information

Pfc Corney M. Ward worked on the family farm when he joined the National Guard in Dexter, Missouri on 23 December 1940.

Corney Ward was killed when he and two British companions in a scouting car, guided by Jan van Hoof, were hit by German fire down the Lange Hezelstraat in Nijmegen.
He was first buried in the Kronerburgerpark. On 14 July 1945 he was evacuated to the American Military Cemetery of Margraten, where he first was buried in a temporary grave.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Marilyn Greene (great-niece), www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Laura Meyer (cousin)