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Personal info

Full name
CULTER, Charles Merle
Date of birth
22 May 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Croweburg, Crawford County, Kansas
Hometown
Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
39720067
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
13 November 1944
Place of death
Achain, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 33 26

Immediate family

Members
Fred M. Culter (father)
Mary E. (Fugate) Culter (mother)
Mae D. (Webster) Culter (wife)
Belinda D. Culter (daughter)

More information

Pfc Charles M. Culter attended high school for two years and was employed at the Navy Yard on Mare Island, California before he enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 9 December 1943.

He was wounded from artillery shell fragments to his chest on 12 November and died a day later.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, 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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men . Johnson Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Union48, www.newspapers.com - The Tri State Tribune, 14 December 1944
Photo source: www.ancestry.com - Pamela Rhoads