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Personal info

Full name
BASS, Robert
Date of birth
1925
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Massachusetts
Hometown
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11131709
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 September 1944
Place of death
Northeast of Nancy, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 10 8

Immediate family

Members
Philip Bass (father)
Rebecca Bass (mother)
Sam Bass (brother)
Mary Bass (sister)
Pauline Bass (sister)
Harold Bass (brother)

More information

Sgt Robert Bass attended high school for two years and was an attendant at a filling station before he joined the U.S. Army Reserve in Boston, Massachusetts on 10 May 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 Census, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division
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