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Personal info

Full name
WEST, Clarence Ellis
Date of birth
3 August 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
South Carolina
Hometown
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Military service

Service number
O1299341
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
109th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Vossenack-Schmidt, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
George W. West (father)
Alice M. (Murray) West (mother)
Mary M. West (sister)
George R. West (brother)
William C. West (brother)
Alice V. West (sister)
Norwood M. West (brother)
Harold E. West (brother)
Beatrice K. West (sister)
Arnistine (Curtis) West (wife)
Emily West (daughter)

More information

1st Lt Clarence E. West attended North Charleston High School. He was a lumber inspector before he joined the National Guard in Charleston, South Carolina on 16 September 1940. He was sent overseas in January 1944.

He is killed instantly by machine gun fire.

Source of information: Danny van der Groen, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - LeAnna D. Brennan (granddaughter), www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / WWII Enlistment Record / Family Tree, Charleston News and Courier - 19 November 1945

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Charleston News and Courier - 19 November 1945