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Personal info

Full name
BARNES, Hilliard
Date of birth
11 October 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Barlow Bend, Clarke County, Alabama
Hometown
Barlow Bend, Clarke County, Alabama

Military service

Service number
34554681
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
389th Engineer General Service Regiment
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
10 May 1945
Place of death
Fürth, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 10 12

Immediate family

Members
Christine (Phillips) Barnes (wife)
Anderson Barnes (son)

More information

Cpl Hilliard Barnes was a farmer before he enlisted at Fort Benning, Georgia on 11 November 1942.

He died from poisoning.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
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