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Personal info

Full name
IRVEN, Sidney W
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Pennsylvania
Hometown
Hartville, Stark County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
15075263
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
1st Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of St. Oedenrode, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 5 23

Immediate family

Members
Clyde J. Irven (father)
Mary E. (Wetzel) Irven (mother)
Merrell Honetor (stepfather)
Margaret E. Honetor (half-sister)
Nancy C. Honetor (half-sister)
William I. Gunsallus (half-brother)
Richard J. Irven (brother)

More information

Sidney W. Irven was a welder at Berger Steel.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States at Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio on 1 February 1942. He attended parachute training schools in Fort Benning, Georgia and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was sent overseas in August 1943 and was a veteran of D-Day in France.

Pvt Irven was initially buried at the Temorary American Military Cemetery of Son, The Netherlands.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.ancestry.com, Army Enlistment Records, Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/502/502.html, Hartville News - 13 October 1944

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Lynda Paustian (niece)