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Personal info

Full name
KOHR, Ray Noah
Date of birth
29 January 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33835953
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 October 1944
Place of death
Near Rambervillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 16 49

Immediate family

Members
Noah R. Kohr (father)
Barbara N. Kohr (mother)
Eva Kohr (sister)
Frank A. Kohr (brother)
Dora C. Kohr (sister)
Mollie N. Kohr (sister)
Homer A. Kohr (brother)
Carrie R. Kohr (sister)
Eva J. (Kreiner) Kohr (wife)
Ray I. Kohr (son)

More information

Pvt Ray N. Kohr attended high school for 4 years before he enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 30 December 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Kl Wynn Family Tree / 1920 Census, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – Elizabethville Echo Pennsylvania 14 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / Joel Frampton Gilfert