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Personal info

Full name
COMBEST, Cecil
Date of birth
unknown
Age
unknown
Place of birth
unknown
Hometown
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
6362580
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Pommérieux, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 31 16

Immediate family

Members
Eva C. Spangler (sister)

More information

Sgt Cecil Combest enlisted in the Regular Army on 6 October 1939. Before he was also in the Regular Army.

On 9 September 1927 he left Ft. Slocum, New York for Honolulu. He returned to San Francisco on 27 July 1933.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

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