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Personal info

Full name
MATTER, Herbert
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
13024180
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 October 1944
Place of death
Near Emberménil, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 32 36

Immediate family

Members
Charles V. Matter (father)
Daisy (Brooks) Matter (mother)
Richard Matter (brother)
Charles V. Matter Jr. (brother)
Anna Matter (sister)

More information

Pvt Herbert Matter worked on a farm before he joined the Regular Army in Baltimore, Maryland on 12 March 1941.

He was killed by small arms fire artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Matter Family Tree / U.S. Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - The Evening Sun - 30 September 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy