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Personal info

Full name
BEERBOWER, Richard Lowell
Date of birth
21 October 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Defiance County, Ohio
Hometown
Farmer, Defiance County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35248631
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
411th Infantry Regiment,
103rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of St. Dié, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 6 60

Immediate family

Members
Roy Beerbower (father)
Inez A. (Staup) Beerbower (mother)
Roy Beerbower (brother)
Robert J. Beerbower (brother)

More information

Pvt Richard L. Beerbower graduated from Farmer High school in 1943.

He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 24 March 1944.

Pvt Beerbower is remembered with a memorial marker at Farmer Cemetery, Defiance County, Ohio.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, http://103divwwii.usm.edu/411th-regiment.html - Unit Journal for November 1944, http://103divwwii.usm.edu/assets/mr-411-i-by-name.pdf
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Dwight "Andy" Anderson / Rita Zipfel, Farmer High School 1940, Defiance County, Ohio Service Record