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Personal info

Full name
BRYANT, Claude Emmett Jr
Date of birth
21 March 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Georgia
Hometown
Tallapoosa County, Alabama

Military service

Service number
34166348
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
12 December 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 31 44

Immediate family

Members
Claude E. Bryant Sr. (father)
Lorena K. (Smith) Bryant (mother)
Nellie C. Bryant (sister)
Emmett H. Bryant (brother)
Thelma F. Bryant (sister)
Sarah C. Bryant (sister)
Bobby T. Bryant (brother)
Pallie J. Bryant (sister)
Llewallyn Bryant (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Claude E. Bryant Jr. enlisted in Fort McClennan, Alabama on 21 January 1942.

He attended high school for 3 years and worked in manufacture of textiles before he enlisted.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery 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 / Layfield Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - SM Guzik