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Personal info

Full name
PARKER, Raymond
Date of birth
2 November 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
New Jersey
Hometown
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42003418
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
157th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 November 1944
Place of death
Derbamont, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 37 7

Immediate family

Members
Thomas Parker (father)
Ethel (Witheridge) Parker (mother)
William Parker (brother)
Dorethy Parker (sister)
Harold Parker (brother)
Ethel Parker (sister)
Clarence Parker (brother)
Mabel E. Parker (sister)
Josephine (Arnout) Parker (wife)
Judith A. Parker (daughter)

More information

Pvt Raymond Parker enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 10 July 1943.

He is remembered at Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pierson Kinzie Family Tree / 1920/1940 Census, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - Denise Petersen