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Personal info

Full name
BROWN, Darrell Elsworth
Date of birth
7 October 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Boone, Boone County, Iowa
Hometown
Ridgefield, Bergen County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32358080
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
9th Armored Infantry Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 October 1944
Place of death
Near Ajoncourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 7 74

Immediate family

Members
Ira V. Brown (father)
Grace E. Brown (mother)
Dorothy L. Brown (sister)
Catherine N. Brown (wife)

More information

Cpl Darrell E. Brown attended high school for four years and was a portrait painter before he enlisted at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York on 22 June 1942.

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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.newspapers.com – The Courier News 6 November 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Gracedv