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Personal info

Full name
HANF, Roy Edward
Date of birth
30 January 1907
Age
37
Place of birth
Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Hometown
Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37628607
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division,
3rd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 October 1944
Place of death
Luneville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 18 37

Immediate family

Members
Edward W. Hanf (father)
Marada M. (Cook) Hanf (mother)
Lillian B. Hanf (sister)
Helen M. Hanf (wife)

More information

Pfc Roy E. Hanf had worked more than 20 years for the International Shoe Company in Cape Girardeau, Missouri before he enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 12 November 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his neck.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / When Kloville and Filla Collide / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Blazen36
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy / Loren Bender, www.ancestry.com - Maddie Donovan