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Personal info

Full name
BONNER, Warren Everett
Date of birth
26 September 1925
Age
18
Place of birth
Elk, Tucker County, West Virginia
Hometown
Dry Fork, Tucker County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35847681
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
4 September 1944
Place of death
Near Bourg, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Casper U. Bonner (father)
Margie M. (Hinkle) Bonner (mother)
Helena Bonner (sister)
Virginia M. Bonner (sister)
Irene B. Bonner (sister)
Reva Bonner (sister)
Darwin A. Bonner (brother)
Kermit Bonner (brother)

More information

Pvt Warren E. Bonner graduated from Davis High School with the class of 1942. He was employed as a crane operator by the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards in Baltimore, Maryland.

He enlisted in Clarksburg, West Virginia on 27 December 1943 and was sent overseas in June 1944.

He was drowned near Bourg, France on 4 September 1944.

He is remembered at the Flanagan Hill Cemetery in Red Creek, Tucker County, West Virginia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / 1940 Census, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett / Mowery, www.newspapers.com - The Cumberland News Maryland 28 September 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Have Paws will travel, www.ancestry.com - Jennifer Gates