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Personal info

Full name
PALMER, Harry Bell
Date of birth
26 November 1917
Age
26
Place of birth
Loudon County, Virginia
Hometown
Montgomery County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33900307
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 October 1944
Place of death
Grandvillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 30 66

Immediate family

Members
Henry T. Palmer (father)
Maude M. (Rinker) Palmer (mother)
Margaret Palmer (sister)
Emory Palmer (brother)
Aubrey Palmer (brother)
Annie E. Palmer (sister)
Elizabeth C. Palmer (sister)
Frances H. Palmer (sister)
John H. Palmer (brother)
Charles W. Palmer (brother)
Fenton Palmer (brother)
Mary M. Palmer (sister)
Alice G. (Cox) Palmer (wife)
Harry A. Palmer (son)

More information

Pvt Harry Palmer attended high school for 3 years and was a driver before he enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 26 November 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 / Beard Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Circle of Life, http://www.45thdivision.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy