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Personal info

Full name
HUMPHRIES, Vernon Oconee
Date of birth
4 June 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Oconee County, South Carolina
Hometown
Cleveland, White County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
34831795
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Avricourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 3 23

Immediate family

Members
Charlie G. Humphries (father)

More information

Pvt Vernon O. Humphries worked on a farm before he enlisted at Fort McPherson, Georgia on 16 November 1943.

He was killed by a machine gun fire in his chest.

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 / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy