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Personal info

Full name
GERBER, Cyril Joseph
Date of birth
23 December 1924
Age
19
Place of birth
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio
Hometown
Bellevue, Sandusky County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35227168
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Avricourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 9 58

Immediate family

Members
Cyril V. Gerber (father)
Eleanor M. (Cassanova) Gerber (mother)
Francis Gerber (twin brother)
Eugene F. Gerber (brother)

More information

Pfc Cyril J. Gerber attended high school for three years before he enlisted in Toledo, Ohio on 24 August 1943. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / McNabb Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Genealogist2007, www.newspapers.com - The News Messenger Ohio 1 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy