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Personal info

Full name
PARKER, Robert Matthews
Date of birth
13 May 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
Hometown
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
20126218
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
Near Saint-Jean-Rohrbach, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 27 44

Immediate family

Members
George R. Parker (father)
Margaret E. (Matthews) Parker (mother)
Richard S. Parker (brother)
John E. Parker (brother)

More information

Pvt Robert M. Parker graduated from Portland High School and was employed in the New Haven General Hospital.

He joined the National Guard in New Haven, Connecticut on 24 February 1941.

He died in a hospital from the effects of artillery shell fragments and several infectons.

Pvt Parker was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Champigneul, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry,com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Cesnsus / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Melodye Whatley
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, Portland Press Herald - 1 March 1945